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Man Reportedly Jailed for Using Lynx
wezzul writes "A Londoner made a tsunami-relief donation using Lynx on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site operator decided that this 'unusual' event in the system log indicated a hack attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him." Honestly, though, aside from a BBC article about a tsunami fund hacking probe that doesn't mention user agents there's little to corroborate this. Hopefully Lynx users need not worry too much yet.
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This is mildly off topic, but I'll back you up on a recent experience of mine. I've had some intense sinus pressure on the right side of my face, but no pain. My normal GP (who has served me well) dismissed it initially, but after 8 months did little more than keep offering me decongestants. They didn't really help. We stepped through a few other options, including ear infections and a course of antibiotics. Still nothing. A few times I asked the guy if he could just take a look up my nose, it *felt* like there was something there, on the right hand side.
He wouldn't, just told me it would be fine, it's nothing to worry about.
That leads me to poke around with a pair of tweezers up my nose - you know, it's really surprising how much space you have back there if you really concentrate while you're prodding about, to see what is where.
After a couple of attempts I latched onto something that didn't give any feedback of belonging to me - I couldn't feel the tweezing, and it didn't hurt. Giving it a tug I felt a *big* pressure change in my sinus, and pulled slowly. Out came what has to be the filthiest thing from my head. Two and a half inches long, dark green/brown and stained with a little blood on the end, it was close to the consistency of a pencil eraser in parts, moving to the consistency of jello at one end.
Then came the draining. Gack. What looked like 2 tablespoons of pus ran from my nose, which honestly made me feel physically ill. I like squeezing a zit as much as the next person, but this was just a bit much.
Anyway, after an hour I felt awesome. no more pressure on the side of my face, and I swear my eyes focus a little better than they did before. I took the gel-lump into my doctor, told him what it was, how it happened, how it had fixed all the sinus pressure I'd been having.
He didn't think that was the problem.
Go figure. My situation wasn't problematic. I wasn't in pain, I didn't have any long term damage to my health, but still a doctor when presented with symptoms and requests from a patient and ignores them, even when the final cause is discovered isn't someone to keep around, so I changed docs and told him why. Give each doc a good go at solving a problem, but if they insist on sticking on a point that really doesn't feel right, do change.
You don't even have to be using Lynx to get put away in the UK.
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
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Dear Slashdot
Your mods seem to be getting more and more silly in the way they dish out mod points, why just yesterday I was modded down as offtopic for stating a fact. Ok maybe I should have had "-1 State the bleeding obvious" or "-1 Smartarse" but not offtopic.
I guess we can only hope that those same mods arent meta moderating those kind of mod points.
Come back 1997! All is forgiven.
I know this is off topic and will be modded down, but this is not a rant. I submitted this story yesterday itself, feeling this was my chance to "give back to the community". I am not sure why this was rejected, when I feel that the post was coherent and grammatically/lexically appropriate. May I suggest a small "Reason" for rejection being handed out so that we can improve our journalistic skills to the high standards of /. ?
I use Avant, a shell for IE. Despite the propaganda spouted here, guess how many viruses I've had in the past 5 years?
0
Now guess the amount of spyware infections I've had?
0
Your lame attempt at humor shows your ignorance. I bet your next joke will be about black people eating watermelon. How clever.
(Score:3, Funny)
funny? you must be kidding me...
Who the hell modded this funny? As far as I can tell he's being dead serious. Polyps are quite dangerous. The parent tries to warn the grandparent he might have a serious medical condition. There's nothing funny about that. Go figure.
I'm trying to improve my English. Please correct me on any spelling/grammar errors in this post.
The Queen of England's tits are of course German.