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Thousands of ICQ Numbers Deleted
BondGamer writes "Many ICQ users woke up and found their ICQ numbers were no longer working. There is a topic on the ICQ support with more than 1,500 replies. There are pages upon pages of other topics asking what happened. As of yet, there has been no official response from AOL about what has happened."
DMCA takedown notices because they were found in the decimal representation of some movies?
Their ICQ accounts have not been baleeted, they've simply been reassigned to a new number.
If they can guess the number within 96 hours they can keep their account. Everything is the same eccept the number. A minor problem is that it does not update your friends' ICQ numbers if they're in the same lottery.
I don't see the problem.
I am not an ICQ number !! I am a human being !!
But call me, #6 !!!
Who is #2 ??? Eric Cartman ?!
Official response? Expect something along the lines of "We are trying to determine if we do indeed host this 'ICQ' service and who would be in charge, but chances are, we either fired them or that quit years ago."
Sounds like they let a sql n00b into the production database...
"Jimmy, could you get me a report for user #12345678?"
"Sure boss, I'll use my awesome SQL skillz"
clacketty clack... osql.exe... clacketty clack clack
select * from IcqUsers
wait wait wait
"Hmmm, that user is very far down the list. I'll get rid of these earlier records so that record will show up faster."
clacketty clack... delete from IcqUsers where UserID
wait wait wait
"JIMMY WTF ARE YOU DOING???? CANCEL THAT QUERY NOW. YOU'RE RUNNING IT AGAINST THE PRODUCTION DB"
"Yessirsirright now sir!!!!!!!!!"
and you can complete the story.
Not anymore
Foxed Design
I don't know if anyone still uses it, but I sure as hell remember my UIN even though I haven't touched ICQ since something like 2000. It's great how I can remember the now-usless 8-digit number for so long and not remember my parents birthdays.
Is this just a publicity stunt to remind people that ICQ still exists? :)
:)
Bad publicity is still publicity.
wow... that's just like... IRC! :O
Wasn't me. I swear.
WE HATE YOU!
Just a friendly reminder
*uh-oh* :-P
That's almost as big of an accomplishment as meeting your fiance on Slashdot!
I guess someone at AOL must've read a certain article about computers needing to forget...
and with the two of you about to be happily married, BAM! AOL deletes her!
Oddly enough it was working perfectly until I went to create an account. BTW, my name is ";Drop Table;"
First post = troll. Cleverly worded post designed to enrage others = flamebait.
this is where we discover AOL have been reliably backing up their ICQ server to /dev/null all these years.
/dev/null will not be lost, but actually show up on a server in an alternate universe. So no all hope is lost!
There's this wormhole theory that says all data you send in
Now all we need is to get to the other universe.
But beware: they might all be evil.
mount -t ext3
Um... sir... I think we have a small problem...
First post = troll. Cleverly worded post designed to enrage others = flamebait.
At least one of the alleged Russkys I actually started chatting with is cute.
Congratulations. You've been speaking to the goatse guy.
-- Soruk
Your friends flirted with your girlfriend on ICQ too? What's her number again? :-)
Go somewhere random
Fix here
We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us
I felt a great disturbance in the Net...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Don't tell me, they all have goatee's?
I tried his ICQ number this morning 666 and it's gone. The bothers me as we really had a good deal in play. He was going to make me Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It was all most done. Blair announced his resignation and I was to step in as planned. He even had a way figured out to get around the fact that I am a US Citizen and everything. Seeing how the US was already taken.....
I wonder if I can sue them for interference with a contract?
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Yes, it sounds like we need a goatse> goatse wormhole. Now all we need is a brave soul to traverse the hole and set up a transverse goatse hole gate at the deep end.
Any takers? Oww, come on! What's the matter...No sense of adventure?....Ya wanna live forever?
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
Knowing our universe, they might all be good.
If that is the case, even the data sent through /dev/null has already destroyed some of their civilization; sending someone would just finish the job.
Ignore this signature. By order.
There's this wormhole theory that says all data you send in /dev/null will not be lost, but actually show up on a server in an alternate universe.
/dev/random comes from!
Ah, so *that's* where all the stuff in
Moderation Total: -1 Troll, +3 Goat
i have no idea what you are talking about, but i cant get my icq fired up
Obviously they didn't forward that message that all their friends sent them, so their accounts got flagged as inactive and deleted.
I HATE AOL. I HATE AOL. I HATE AOL. Its the worst company on the planet
You can't buy publicity like that.
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.