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AOL Enters the VoIP market
freitasm writes "AOL is entering the VoIP market with its new service entitled 'AOL Internet Phone Service'. The service will be available in 40 cities around the US and offer integrated IM presence indicator, voice/e-mail and features like Call Waiting, CallerID. As a bonus current AOL members wil receive a wireless AP when signing-up for the service."
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pwned by GNAA
It's absolutely essential that we have an open source Voice/IP application that implements the security properly.
I don't trust commerical companies to keep my calls encrypted and not sell my conversations to the government at the first available moment.
We need P2P software designed by the community to provide us with some real security.
Simon.
Goatse.cx (usually pronounced as "goat sex", often truncated to goatse, often referenced by one of its current URLs such as goat.cx, and occasionally called goatsex) is one of the most infamous Internet shock sites. Its front page contains a sexually explicit picture, hello.jpg, featuring a man wearing a gold ring on his left hand (and nothing else) manually stretching his anus and rectum to a diameter roughly equal to the width of his hand. Below the anus, the man's dangling penis and testicles are visible. The site is commonly linked to by Internet trolls in order to shock unsuspecting users with the repulsive image.
As of January 14, 2004, the domain goatse.cx is no longer online. However, many mirrors of the site are still available and the image itself has been posted at many other websites. The most common mirror was goat.cx; however, goat.cx is as well no longer online as of February 22, 2005. As of February 27 of that year, the domain goat.cx, like goatse.cx, had been suspended by the Christmas Island Internet Administration, however the domain now appears to be back online, showing only the message "be right back." Christmas Island Technology Corp has registered goats.cx as of May 24, 2002 with obviously nonexistent name servers, presumably in an attempt to prevent another mirror of the original goatse.cx.
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1 Etymology
2 Identity of the "Goatse Man"
3 Organization
4 Geographic location
5 Parodies and tributes
6 External links
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Etymology
The intended meaning of the site's name is not known for certain. It is commonly interpreted as a word play on the phrase "goat sex", although no goats are involved anywhere on the site.
It has been claimed that prior to hello.jpg, Goatse.cx contained a picture of a woman being anally penetrated by a goat. This is wrong, however. The alt tag on the image, "stinger", actually comes from the EFNet #quake channel. The image itself was discovered on a webpage called members.xoom.com/stinger (it was removed and placed in members.xoom.com/_stinger). Goatse.cx was created by a #quake member expressly for the purpose of displaying the image.
The Internet Archive only lists versions as far back as March, 1999, at which point hello.jpg was already being used.
Others believe that goatse is actually an acronym for "Guy Opens Ass To Show Everyone," with the usage of the ".cx" TLD being purely coincidental. However, this is likely a backronym.
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Identity of the "Goatse Man"
A series of pictures by a man identified as Kirk Johnson contains the precursor images to hello.jpg and some following. At this point, it is highly likely that Kirk Johnson is the "Goatse Man." Kirk Johnson is a regular poster to the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male.anal, among others, and a rather simple analysis confirms this; it is unlikely that there is another practitioner of anal stretching with the same mole on the upper-left edge of his anus. Furthermore, both the gap.zip (see below) pictures and Kirk Johnson's pictures show the same large yellow buttplug being used.
He has been given many nicknames by various Internet communities, including "The Goatse Guy", "Goatse Man", "Matt", "Narayan", "Cavanah", "Bob Goatse", "Mr G.", "The Goatman", "The Receiver", "Stinger" (hello.jpg was originally passed around on IRC as _stinger.jpg, with the intent of prodding an oper), "Gatasa", "Gman", "Goatsemon", "Goatse", "Gaping Ass Man", "Yam Sthruss", "Senor Goatse", and many others.
Some have claimed that "he" is actually a hermaphrodite, and he is actually pulling open his vagina. However, the rest of the images in the series are unambiguously male, and, as the interview linked below shows, it is certainly possible for a man's anus to exhibit the elasticity shown.
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Organization
Goatse.cx has four sections, three of which have images of questionable taste:
* The "Receiver" section, showing the aforementioned hello.jpg. Hello.jpg has the alt= att