Actually, I almost creamed my pants when I heard "Where is my mind?" playing as the buildings toppled. It was just so funny to me, and I'm not quite sure why.
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Brad Pitt doesn't get knocked the fuck out in fight club...
Norton shoots himself in the head and Pitt goes away, but Pitt doesn't get knocked the fuck out, ever...
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When doing a "Best of (insert and timeline here)", you should at least wait until that timeline is over and gone for a bit. Needless to say, a large percentage of the top 100 is from the last 3 years. Don't get me wrong, but isn't this kind of poll a little biased toward current material? Say, five-ten years from now, a best of the millenium would yield much better and REALISTIC results. I mean, come on now, Limp Bizkit in the top 25 of the millenium? Try to tell me that isn't because of a bunch of brainwashed kids
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Looks like my "Melt the Polar Ice Caps" business venture is going to be a failure. Oh well, back to my "Chop down the rainforest so the whole world dies but at least we'll have lots of paper and 2 x 4's" idea
Err...Looks lime someone beat me to that one too...
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So apparently, I can now copyright normal words in the english language, like say, names? I'm going to copyright my name, John. Then Im going to sue to have every else named John shot. This is the exact same scenario that is presented by the Olympic Committee.
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Oh, what about all those sites related to mythology? I think perhaps in the spirit of getting even, they (website owners) should let all their sites get taken down, and then sue the Olympic Committee. Come on now, the committee is going to be disrupting a lot of legitamite bussinesses here.
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Its all well and good for them to ask for a REFUND on the basis that the website designed for them does not FUNCTION as it was supposed to, but if they are SUING because they dont like how it LOOKS, then they're gonna need the dream team on this one...
--------------------------- "I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
I have two completely contradictory statements about this whole mess, and I'm not sure which one I want to go with here...
1.) Why does the government have the right to interfere with a private method of communication? They can wiretap our phones, read our email, video tape anything and everything. The only truely secure method I see of communicating anymore is driving out to the desert, stripping naked, and whispering with your friends. I don't really mind my email being read as I do nothing of importance, but this is just another step towards total invasion of privacy. Who knows how much longer it will be before we all have microphones installed in our voice boxes and video cameras and transmitters that run of bioelectricity put in us all as were born for full time monitoring by big brother?
2.) Maybe theres a legitamite use? Who knows what this could stop. Im all for losing a little bit of privacy if it would of meant something like...stopping the Oklahoma city bombings or something. But the line still has to be drawn somewhere..
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There is a company around here called Alabanza. My friend works there, and he assures me that everyone knows what they're doing, and that nobody there is a moron. Try here.
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I can imagine this will stir up more histeria than expected. I read a very interesting book, called "The Secular City" by Harvey Cox. I recommend it to anyone with an IQ over 37. Here is an interesting quote from the book, that is slightly relative to this story:
"The relativization of values does not have to lead to either individual or group solipsism. It can have a much more constructive result, the recognition that since everyone's perspective is limited and conditioned, no one has the right to inflict his values on anyone else. In political terms, a certain degree of healthy relativism provides the philosophical basis for pluralism."
In other words, Harvey Cox said unto the world, your values are not everyone elses, dont force them on me. I am pro-choice, and tend to have an open mind about things like this, its very healthy to take others perspectives into account.
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When a child turns into a cracker, it is because someone sparked his interest. Its not because they want to go out and cause trouble. Its not because they just suddenly said "Hey, I want to break computers." This program can easily be considered a spark. Kids don't care about causing trouble. My guess is that this is going to make kids ever MORE curios about the world of computers. This is going to be the biggest blunder in anti-cracker history.
Hell, this might ever be good for the computer industry down the line. Those 15 year old cracker morons always realize down the line that they are retarded. Then and there, they either give up or actually become hackers. With more kids going down this road, there will be more script kiddies. That equals more stupid attacks on computers, which eventually means vendors may fix software or write it better in the first place. Then, years from now, some of those same kids could be working for those vendors. End result, software quality goes up. More kids become crackers. More adults become hackers. And the whole plan backfired, but still had positive results.
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How much does the normal advertising campaign cost? Just with TV ads and such? Because they know (if they dont, pity on them) that nooone can see it from outer space. So this is all in the hope the media will pick up on it and cover it with great enthusiasm. So, would this be cheaper than the normal TV advertisements?
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Is this a hardware problem or is it the DVD itself?? You'd think they would know that they would be selling TONS of copies of this great movie, so they should have tested the damn thing in all environments. This shows a complete lack of thoughtfulness for the wide spectrum of people who would be buying this movie. And there is no spoon.
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I tend to agree with the others that say we don't know as much about outer space as we think we do. There could be pockets of gasses that slow things down, because space isnt a complete vacuum, right? There could also perhaps be wind that nobody cared to observe. Also, where did they get this measurement of how fast a probe should go? Maybe that is flawed. Possibly again because of different gasses. And perhaps gravity has a further reaching effect that we think. But why is it that these scientists get a number, and beleive it to be correct under conditions they beleive are correct, and then complain about it when either one of the numbers can be very wrong?
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Frankly, I'm getting sick of hearing about this. I didn't even bother reading the article. Why does there have to be a clearly defined reason everything happens? Why can't people just accept that sometimes things happen that we don't expect? This whole ordeal sickens me. It sickens me that kids would do things like that. It sickens me how much the media feeds off of them, and probably go home and pray that someone else will go on a murderous rampage. It sickens me how much people are willing to accept stereotypes and how the media propogates them. In the end of last school year and the beginning of this new one, I've been through so much hell because of the way the media just keeps feeding everyone this garbage. I listen to "satanic" music, I have a demented sense of humor, I'm a non-conformist, I am disruptive and rude to people who deserve it. Its never gotten me into serious trouble before. Now my parents think I'm a satanist, as do my teachers. My fellow students are afraid Im going to kill them. And I've been offered therapy more times than I can count this year. All this because I'm just a bit different. Imagine how bad the goths and such are getting it right now?
I hope I never see another one of these damned "why kids kill" or "this is what really happened" articles or anything even remotely related to them ever again.
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How can this possibly be useful? It would have to be pointed directly at whatever it wanted to photograph. Therefore, it would have to KNOW when someone is committing a crime in order to take a picture of the innocent person as proof. Also, 1 meter resolution? How are they going to be able to use that as proof? You could be mistaken for a large animal very easily. Also, back to the sattelite pointing at a precise moment, I think that would be more incriminating to have that picture taken (Hmmm...if this guy didn't know about the crime taking place at that exact same time, why did he have this made as proof he didnt at the exact same time?) that to not have it...
Another thing that bothers me, its called orbit. If this thing is in orbit, that means its only going to be over top of certain places at certain times of the day. Which means they'll need a lot of them to actually have coverage. This also bothered me in "Enemy of the State". It appeared they used the exact same sattelite every time....
If I'm wrong about the part above, would someone please politely correct me.
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Here at my school, every single mac has monitoring software on it. It keeps track of every URL you visit, it logs keystrokes, and keeps track of the apps you run. I tell the teachers about this sometimes, and they tell me to remove this evil software. I removed it from about 20 of the computers in one building before the admin caught on and starting shutting down every computer I tried it on before I could finish. According to the higher-ups, this is all for our safety, but more often then not, the teachers tell me this is making it hard for kids to learn. It blocks them from sites they need to get to for reports. They get suspended for going to some sites that they need for research. And I nearly got expelled if the teachers wouldn't have covered up for me so well. I still show all the students and teachers neat little tricks to get around the filtering software, I still remove the monitoring software whenever possible, and I plan on keeping it up. The thing I hate most, is that this is NOT EVEN MENTIONED EVER in any of the school paper work that is handed out about the computers. Most people don't even know they are being spied on.
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Im suprised more comapnies aren't doing that. They really should hire the winners. It's a much better way of seeing someones abilities than looking at some worthless paper. Would you rather have someone that can code faster and better than anyone else on your staff or someone who should be able to code faster than anyone else on your staff?
I hope we see more of this in the future.
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He is such an uptight little kid. Once upon a time, I wrote a script that spammed his hack attempts database. I sent it out to a few people who faithfully ran it. When he finally disabled it, I got an email from him taunting me and how he was keeping logs of me for future use.
I swear he is the national enquirer of the internet. The time when he put up that "Eye on the underground" thing, and someone on a webboard he was "monitoring" inserted a little bit of code, he instantly blamed the webboard owners. Not only that, but he put out a press release stating something along the lines of "AntiOnline.com was not hacked. What happened is one of the owners of a service we monitor decided to change his content..." He faithfully declared this as the gospel truth.
I swear, he will do anything for a little more press recognition. He is the ultimate media whore.
Every time he gets in one of his pointless flame wars, he uses every possible media outlet as a means of trying to humiliate his adversaries. I saw during the last little bout, he used not only all 7 of his domains, but the happyhacker site, the happyhacker mailing lists, several other that he controls, and every time he was interviewed in that time, he mentioned it.
Not to mention, he considers himself so computer savvy, but when I got that email from him, guess what the client was...yup...Outlook Express.
Wow, I amazed myself by criticizing him without saying "crack baby media whore"
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The last thing I want is the general public to go flying around as if they were driving cars. Imagine, you take a ton of tests just like for getting a liscense to drive a car, and you see how many people do reckless things with their cars?
I'd hate to see the wrecks from drunken pilots. Hell, I'm sure every petty criminal in the world would want one. "Hey, lets fly over top of this guys house and take pictures of his wife naked!"
And damn, imagine the escalation in fly-by shootings...
Just my opinion, but not only would the government probably not permit it, but if they did, those screening tests for who can fly these things would have to be pretty damn strict.
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me being the non-beleiver I am, I just tried it out, and I just about wet myself from the domain I used as a test... Let me just say that it works. Some people ought to consider security every now and again....
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Slashdot Mirror
I'd rather see the NASA Scientisits beat each other up.
Nothin says warrior like a PhD in Astrophsyics...
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Actually, I almost creamed my pants when I heard "Where is my mind?" playing as the buildings toppled. It was just so funny to me, and I'm not quite sure why.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Brad Pitt doesn't get knocked the fuck out in fight club...
Norton shoots himself in the head and Pitt goes away, but Pitt doesn't get knocked the fuck out, ever...
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
When doing a "Best of (insert and timeline here)", you should at least wait until that timeline is over and gone for a bit. Needless to say, a large percentage of the top 100 is from the last 3 years. Don't get me wrong, but isn't this kind of poll a little biased toward current material? Say, five-ten years from now, a best of the millenium would yield much better and REALISTIC results. I mean, come on now, Limp Bizkit in the top 25 of the millenium? Try to tell me that isn't because of a bunch of brainwashed kids
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Looks like my "Melt the Polar Ice Caps" business venture is going to be a failure. Oh well, back to my "Chop down the rainforest so the whole world dies but at least we'll have lots of paper and 2 x 4's" idea
Err...Looks lime someone beat me to that one too...
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
I didn't think it would offend anyone if I made a simple mistake. I think the point still gets cross though, so settle down dude.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
So apparently, I can now copyright normal words in the english language, like say, names? I'm going to copyright my name, John. Then Im going to sue to have every else named John shot. This is the exact same scenario that is presented by the Olympic Committee.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Oh, what about all those sites related to mythology? I think perhaps in the spirit of getting even, they (website owners) should let all their sites get taken down, and then sue the Olympic Committee. Come on now, the committee is going to be disrupting a lot of legitamite bussinesses here.
---------------------------
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Its all well and good for them to ask for a REFUND on the basis that the website designed for them does not FUNCTION as it was supposed to, but if they are SUING because they dont like how it LOOKS, then they're gonna need the dream team on this one...
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
I have two completely contradictory statements about this whole mess, and I'm not sure which one I want to go with here...
1.) Why does the government have the right to interfere with a private method of communication? They can wiretap our phones, read our email, video tape anything and everything. The only truely secure method I see of communicating anymore is driving out to the desert, stripping naked, and whispering with your friends. I don't really mind my email being read as I do nothing of importance, but this is just another step towards total invasion of privacy. Who knows how much longer it will be before we all have microphones installed in our voice boxes and video cameras and transmitters that run of bioelectricity put in us all as were born for full time monitoring by big brother?
2.) Maybe theres a legitamite use? Who knows what this could stop. Im all for losing a little bit of privacy if it would of meant something like...stopping the Oklahoma city bombings or something. But the line still has to be drawn somewhere..
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
So does this mean we can be sued if we submit something to bugtraq?
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
There is a company around here called Alabanza. My friend works there, and he assures me that everyone knows what they're doing, and that nobody there is a moron. Try here.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
I can imagine this will stir up more histeria than expected. I read a very interesting book, called "The Secular City" by Harvey Cox. I recommend it to anyone with an IQ over 37. Here is an interesting quote from the book, that is slightly relative to this story:
"The relativization of values does not have to lead to either individual or group solipsism. It can have a much more constructive result, the recognition that since everyone's perspective is limited and conditioned, no one has the right to inflict his values on anyone else. In political terms, a certain degree of healthy relativism provides the philosophical basis for pluralism."
In other words, Harvey Cox said unto the world, your values are not everyone elses, dont force them on me. I am pro-choice, and tend to have an open mind about things like this, its very healthy to take others perspectives into account.
---------------------------
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
When a child turns into a cracker, it is because someone sparked his interest. Its not because they want to go out and cause trouble. Its not because they just suddenly said "Hey, I want to break computers." This program can easily be considered a spark. Kids don't care about causing trouble. My guess is that this is going to make kids ever MORE curios about the world of computers. This is going to be the biggest blunder in anti-cracker history.
Hell, this might ever be good for the computer industry down the line. Those 15 year old cracker morons always realize down the line that they are retarded. Then and there, they either give up or actually become hackers. With more kids going down this road, there will be more script kiddies. That equals more stupid attacks on computers, which eventually means vendors may fix software or write it better in the first place. Then, years from now, some of those same kids could be working for those vendors. End result, software quality goes up. More kids become crackers. More adults become hackers. And the whole plan backfired, but still had positive results.
---------------------------
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
How much does the normal advertising campaign cost? Just with TV ads and such? Because they know (if they dont, pity on them) that nooone can see it from outer space. So this is all in the hope the media will pick up on it and cover it with great enthusiasm. So, would this be cheaper than the normal TV advertisements?
---------------------------
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Is this a hardware problem or is it the DVD itself?? You'd think they would know that they would be selling TONS of copies of this great movie, so they should have tested the damn thing in all environments. This shows a complete lack of thoughtfulness for the wide spectrum of people who would be buying this movie. And there is no spoon.
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What I meant is why dont they think that they are wrong? They should be quicker to accept that they could have messed up some calculations.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
I tend to agree with the others that say we don't know as much about outer space as we think we do. There could be pockets of gasses that slow things down, because space isnt a complete vacuum, right? There could also perhaps be wind that nobody cared to observe. Also, where did they get this measurement of how fast a probe should go? Maybe that is flawed. Possibly again because of different gasses. And perhaps gravity has a further reaching effect that we think. But why is it that these scientists get a number, and beleive it to be correct under conditions they beleive are correct, and then complain about it when either one of the numbers can be very wrong?
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Frankly, I'm getting sick of hearing about this. I didn't even bother reading the article. Why does there have to be a clearly defined reason everything happens? Why can't people just accept that sometimes things happen that we don't expect? This whole ordeal sickens me. It sickens me that kids would do things like that. It sickens me how much the media feeds off of them, and probably go home and pray that someone else will go on a murderous rampage. It sickens me how much people are willing to accept stereotypes and how the media propogates them. In the end of last school year and the beginning of this new one, I've been through so much hell because of the way the media just keeps feeding everyone this garbage. I listen to "satanic" music, I have a demented sense of humor, I'm a non-conformist, I am disruptive and rude to people who deserve it. Its never gotten me into serious trouble before. Now my parents think I'm a satanist, as do my teachers. My fellow students are afraid Im going to kill them. And I've been offered therapy more times than I can count this year. All this because I'm just a bit different. Imagine how bad the goths and such are getting it right now?
I hope I never see another one of these damned "why kids kill" or "this is what really happened" articles or anything even remotely related to them ever again.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
How can this possibly be useful? It would have to be pointed directly at whatever it wanted to photograph. Therefore, it would have to KNOW when someone is committing a crime in order to take a picture of the innocent person as proof. Also, 1 meter resolution? How are they going to be able to use that as proof? You could be mistaken for a large animal very easily. Also, back to the sattelite pointing at a precise moment, I think that would be more incriminating to have that picture taken (Hmmm...if this guy didn't know about the crime taking place at that exact same time, why did he have this made as proof he didnt at the exact same time?) that to not have it...
Another thing that bothers me, its called orbit. If this thing is in orbit, that means its only going to be over top of certain places at certain times of the day. Which means they'll need a lot of them to actually have coverage. This also bothered me in "Enemy of the State". It appeared they used the exact same sattelite every time....
If I'm wrong about the part above, would someone please politely correct me.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Here at my school, every single mac has monitoring software on it. It keeps track of every URL you visit, it logs keystrokes, and keeps track of the apps you run. I tell the teachers about this sometimes, and they tell me to remove this evil software. I removed it from about 20 of the computers in one building before the admin caught on and starting shutting down every computer I tried it on before I could finish. According to the higher-ups, this is all for our safety, but more often then not, the teachers tell me this is making it hard for kids to learn. It blocks them from sites they need to get to for reports. They get suspended for going to some sites that they need for research. And I nearly got expelled if the teachers wouldn't have covered up for me so well. I still show all the students and teachers neat little tricks to get around the filtering software, I still remove the monitoring software whenever possible, and I plan on keeping it up. The thing I hate most, is that this is NOT EVEN MENTIONED EVER in any of the school paper work that is handed out about the computers. Most people don't even know they are being spied on.
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
Im suprised more comapnies aren't doing that. They really should hire the winners. It's a much better way of seeing someones abilities than looking at some worthless paper. Would you rather have someone that can code faster and better than anyone else on your staff or someone who should be able to code faster than anyone else on your staff?
I hope we see more of this in the future.
---------------------------
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
He is such an uptight little kid. Once upon a time, I wrote a script that spammed his hack attempts database. I sent it out to a few people who faithfully ran it. When he finally disabled it, I got an email from him taunting me and how he was keeping logs of me for future use.
I swear he is the national enquirer of the internet. The time when he put up that "Eye on the underground" thing, and someone on a webboard he was "monitoring" inserted a little bit of code, he instantly blamed the webboard owners. Not only that, but he put out a press release stating something along the lines of "AntiOnline.com was not hacked. What happened is one of the owners of a service we monitor decided to change his content..." He faithfully declared this as the gospel truth.
I swear, he will do anything for a little more press recognition. He is the ultimate media whore.
Every time he gets in one of his pointless flame wars, he uses every possible media outlet as a means of trying to humiliate his adversaries. I saw during the last little bout, he used not only all 7 of his domains, but the happyhacker site, the happyhacker mailing lists, several other that he controls, and every time he was interviewed in that time, he mentioned it.
Not to mention, he considers himself so computer savvy, but when I got that email from him, guess what the client was...yup...Outlook Express.
Wow, I amazed myself by criticizing him without saying "crack baby media whore"
---------------------------
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
The last thing I want is the general public to go flying around as if they were driving cars. Imagine, you take a ton of tests just like for getting a liscense to drive a car, and you see how many people do reckless things with their cars?
I'd hate to see the wrecks from drunken pilots.
Hell, I'm sure every petty criminal in the world would want one. "Hey, lets fly over top of this guys house and take pictures of his wife naked!"
And damn, imagine the escalation in fly-by shootings...
Just my opinion, but not only would the government probably not permit it, but if they did, those screening tests for who can fly these things would have to be pretty damn strict.
---------------------------
"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"
me being the non-beleiver I am, I just tried it out, and I just about wet myself from the domain I used as a test...
Let me just say that it works.
Some people ought to consider security every now and again....
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"I'm not gonna say anything inspirational, I'm just gonna fucking swear a lot"