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John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked"

Posted by kdawson on from the careful-who-you-leach-from dept.

Several readers let us know about a little problem with presidential hopeful John McCain's MySpace page. Looks as though some staffer didn't read the fine print of the "credit" clause when selecting a template for the page. The template author and CEO of Newsvine, Mike Davidson, noticed this and didn't care too much. But the McCain page was pulling an image from Davidson's site, costing him bandwidth every time someone visited the candidate's MySpace page. So Davidson changed the image in question to read: "Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage... particularly marriage between two passionate females." Here is Davidson's account of the "immaculate hack".

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  1. I for one... by edwardpickman · · Score: 5, Funny

    approve and support McCain's new and elightened postion on female marriage.

    1. Re:I for one... by Jedi+Alec · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well, I for one don't. I'd much rather they slept around. Variation keeps things interesting ;-)

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  2. Re:+1 Funny. by ArsenneLupin · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you're going to prank, prank the hard issues :-) I fully agree. He should have said: Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage... particularly marriage between two hod studs with hard cocks.

  3. Actually.. by yamamushi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thats the whole reason I would have voted for him, hot one on one chick action legalization... :)

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  4. Re:Just wandering... by Carewolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    In fact making intentionally deceiving people illegal could have catastrophic consequences on Christmas and Easter as we know it.

  5. How many friends? by pev · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well he's currently got 2813 friends on myspace - If I'm not mistaken, with Diebolds help that should be just enough to take the next presidency!

    ~Pev

  6. Re:Never... er... always check your references by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He's a war hero - ok, fine. What difference does that make to my point? I don't care if he was Roger Ramjet or Captain America himself, having some campaign flunky set up a myspace account to get in touch with youth is just dumb.

    Captain America is DEAD, you insensitive clod!

    *runs off crying*
  7. Step 2 by Registered+Coward+v2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, when the candidate appears at froums, people should ask if he still supports his earlier announced position in favor of hot women marrying.

    That would be funny...

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  8. Re:This could majorly backfire by whathappenedtomonday · · Score: 3, Funny

    Had he replaced it with a general image not directly related to McCain (Goatse?) than he'd probably stand a better chance if this does make it in front of a Judge.

    Holy cow, imagine that! Judge: "Good thing you used the Goatse guy pic which is completely unrelated to McCain! You're free to go. And thanks for introducing me to such an interesting ho... person. I'm off to check that guy's website!"

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  9. Re:In my day... by 19thNervousBreakdown · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you call someone who still uses leetspeak after 2000?

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  10. Re:In my day... by stonecypher · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, as opposed to something new and inventive like an XML tagline.

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  11. Re:This could majorly backfire by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would someone who went to law school for eight years, then acted as a lawyer, then went back to law school for four more years, understand simple propriety and ownership? Yes.

    I wouldn't trust anyone who took 8 years to finish law school to understand much of anything...

  12. Re:In my day... by xdroop · · Score: 4, Funny

    What do you call someone who still uses leetspeak after 2000?
    Older than you.

    Hey -- measured in Internet Time, we're Senior Citizens now! When do we get our pensions?

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  13. Hey Everyone, Pitch In! by carrier+lost · · Score: 3, Funny
    my bandwidth is being used to deliver part of the page! Bad McCain!

    Well, how about a few thousand slashdot visitors? Will that help?

    MjM

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  14. Re:This could majorly backfire by Sloppy · · Score: 4, Funny

    How can someone with as low a UID as yours be this fearfully clueless about the legal system?

    Yeah, that's disturbing. Back when Slashdot only allowed current members of the state bar to register their usernames, everyone thought it would keep discussions intelligent. Now we find out that half the people forged their credentials and the other half were in the midst of ethics probes. (I always wondered about that "hot grits" guy's absurd explanation of the Interstate Commerce clause.)

    As for me, yeah, I'll fess up: forged credentials. It was hilarious: the New Mexico board never did get any sort of confirmation call about me at all, even after I posted my first comment critical of Linux. People here are so naive and trusting!

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  15. Re:+1 Funny. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't work in Lynx.

  16. Re:+1 Funny. by Wingnut64 · · Score: 4, Funny

    After using Mozillia and Firefox for many a year, the habit of opening links in new tabs as I'm still reading the article is quite ingrained into me. It was with much dismay that I read your last paragraph, noticed that my mouse stopped working and my harddrive activity light was solid. Firefox died a horrible death, and did so again 3 minutes later as I reflected upon the foolishness of choosing 'Restore last session'. 5 minutes later, I was berating myself for saving the file into a directory that nautalis had open on my desktop, forgetting that it creates thumbnails based on file type, not extension.

    I'm now posting this from another computer.

    # chmod 000 pandora.jpg

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