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Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?
An anonymous reader writes "While browsing around the Fox News website, I found that directory indexes are turned on. So, I started following the tree up, until I got to /admin. Eventually, I found my way into /admin/xml_parser/zdnet/, in which, there is a shell script. Seeing as it's a shell script, and I use Linux, I took a peek. Inside, is a username and password to an FTP. So, of course, I tried to login. The result? Epic fail on Fox's part. And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic." It's already been changed of course, but that's still pretty amusing.
way up!
A horse can't be sick, you know, even if he wants to.
this is too funny for troll . . . c'mon mods!
Since when does being a Socialist mean 'someone who has a different opinion than me'?
This story is worthy of /. news? What was I expecting this morning, more tech reports/stories on technology? Silly me, instead I get some silly liberal biased non-story instead.
Dammy
Although I personally was against the invasion, I don't doubt that Sadaam was interested in acquiring WMD, and may have been interested in "fast break out" when vigilance wavered.
The answer, of course, was not to let vigilance waver.
The President famously didn't want to follow through on Richard Clarke's anti-terrorism efforts because he was tired of "swatting at flies". Well so? If they're flies, swat 'em.
Somethings that need to be done are best done with regular doses of attention. It is more realistic in the long run to pick your room up a little bit every day than to fight an epic battle in which clutter is banished forever.
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It's not a Straw Man unless they misrepresented someone's argument in order to attack it. The term you're looking for is "government propaganda".
Actually, he was talking about staw men.
While your point is valid, the title of your post irks me.
So I've got a question: How, exactly, can you determine who did the modding and which were their motivations? Because, as far as I can see, there is absolutely no practical way to determine who did it and why. Therefore, I find your interpretation of it being "Left-Wing Fascists" to mod the GP off-topic somewhat doubtful.
Indeed, one would have much more reason to assume it to be "Right-Wing Fascists" - after all, while his main argument is just a rational observation (which only the insanest of the left - which doubtlessly exist - would have taken as slighting them), while his PS notes his position, making him seem left, therefore a target of right-wingers because he doesn't rally behind the president in an unconditional way but thinks for himself, recognizing an error, no matter which side makes it.
Why, then, do you get the idea that it is "Left-Wing Fascists" who did the modding? Well, I didn't want to randomly accuse people, so I read up about you (which is more than you can claim about those who did the modding). The image which resulted demonstrated impressively that you are, indeed, a "Right-Wing Fascist", projecting your own behaviour on others, perceiving them as being "on the other side".
The most interesting point is: As pointed out above, the PS makes the right mod the GP down. However, because the GP dares to criticize "the left stance" (which is why he feels the need to add the PS), you think he is on the right side (because, after all, lefties could never ever criticize themselves - which is exactly what I meant by projection), you side with him and claim that it were lefties who did the modding down.
Do you know whom this reminds me of? Not wanting to invoke Godwins law by pointing out how Hitler started the second world war, I give you the example of Operation Gladio: This NATO stay-behind-organization made, on command of the CIA, terroristic strikes in several countries, especially Europe, and blamed it on the communists.
There's also another thing of note: Here in Europe, we have a balance between left and right (though we became significantly more fascist, i.e. right, in the aftermath of 9/11). From our perspective, the Democrats and Republicans are both as far right as the fringemost right parties we have here. Thus, we can only shake our heads at your irrational fear of any hint of social responsibility, endangering your ability (not freedom, though you righties call it such) to take freedom away.
In Soviet Russia, government controls corporations.
In Capitalist America, corporations control government.
No flames from me... I agree. I think many of the poll questions and the analysis is completely wrong, which is why I hate when politicians and pundits use them so much.
Example: Did Iraq have WMDs before the 2003 invasion?
Then make fun of the people who said yes, even though "before" is not qualified. Certainly Iraq had, at some point before the invasion, WMDs.
Example: Were any WMDs found in Iraq since the invasion?
Then make fun of people who said yes, even though that's the truth. It wasn't, perhaps, the stockpiles we were "promised", but the question is not clear on that fact, either.
Example: Do you approve of the job the U.S. military is doing in Iraq?
Then claim that because most people answered "no" that this means we should withdraw. Well, I'd have said "no," too, but that doesn't mean I care for the long term dissaster that will happen if we just leave.
As usual, for most of these things, my personal belief is that the answer, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle. Was Iraq a threat if left to it's own ends? I believe the answer is yes. On the other hand, they weren't exactly being left to their own ends. Did they have WMDs? Some old ones, sure. Perhaps they had more that they subsequently got rid of. I don't know. Again, I think the problem is if they were left to their own ends.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
Agreed 100%... not only can questions be misleading ("Did Iraq have WMDs before the invasion?" Of course they did... maybe immediately before, but certainly 10 and 20 years before, but there's no context to the word "before"), but the analysis (which is usually what they print in the headlines) can be totally wrong...
Most people, for example, disapprove of the handling of the war, and CNN concluded that people want us to abandon Iraq. Well, I'd have said we're doing a bad job; but I also don't advocate making it worse by leaving.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
"The answer, of course, was not to let vigilance waver."
And you're right. In fact, that was the plan. Once the UN inspectors certified that Saddam had no nuclear weapons program, they intended to install a monitoring system that would have guaranteed that Saddam never would have one (without deliberately throwing out the monitoring system, which would have been a red flag in itself.)
But Bush's throwing out the inspectors and invading ruined that plan.
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