I'm one of the guys doing the streaming video. (praying that the bandwidth at this shop is enough to do the job, which we check today in fact.) Thats about the reach of my involvment, show up, hook things up, point the camera so the people in VR can see/hear whats going on, provide the streamer and the bandwidth, etc. They just call us up when they need it done.
We also did the new york SLCC event (which was made problematic due to L3 and cogent crapping on each other at the same time),but it was more or less the same idea at the NY law school. Was actualy quite cool!
It sounds weird from the outside, but it's a neat trick to pull off. It's a very sureal connection when you have a copy of a real place with real people being shown in an exact copy of the same place in VR and vice versa. You have instances where people look back and forth at each other and wave or talk across a digital void. It's just not something you commonly see every day.
Think of it as a RL/VR two way mirror.
It also has its entertaining moments. For example, the VR streaker running by the VR camera wearing black censor bars in the middle of some linden's speech, projected in giant bold clarity beind them.
But aside from that, I just hope this shop isnt running some lame ISDN modem or something like that.
And now, for shameless plugging. Servercave.com, thats us. Yup. We do it for the advertizing, because we can. (Because last time, they didn't get our link up till nearly/after/ the event in NY....;)
Once on contract, I opted to burn a little waste money and make a point to our client (who was trying to shake down on in-house contracts for IT people)
Called MS support claiming a 'mouse on our terminal server was refusing to work.'
To keep a long story short, this poor sap ran us through eveyrthing to try and get it working again (including checking driver files and system stuff, I even got moved up the line a couple times)
After about an hour, they finaly break down to the good old 'you need to re-install the OS.' lament. (read: we have no idea, re-install!)
He forgot one thing however: 'is it plugged in?'
Sigh..:)
This more or less made it clear to our client's that they need in-house support and can't rely on some underpaid yutz on a phone to do the job right.:P
(Nervermind the kind of noises the guy made on the phone when I mentioned we were working on migrating alot of our backend servers to *nix, hee!)
Paypal is out to make money - Not out to make YOU money.
That being said, we dropped paypal service completey. Sorry, but if some snotty little brat can call paypal and just 'complain' about my account (this happened!) and LOCK IT FOEVER without/any/ proof of/any/ wrong doing..
Then these people are a little trigger happy.
F*uck em, F*uck em with a 10 ton anal probe. There are better ways out there now, and paypals stupid, braindead methods of screwing their customers is going the way of the dodo bird, the popularity they have from 'before' they went south is just going to take a while to burn off.
FYI: Of the accounts they lock, they only 'pay out' so many of them. (You have to break some arms to get it, too.)
Why else do you think their reports and whatnot always look so great? Shaving a little off the customers to make ends meet better..:P
It's even more fun when others don't notice that you are on to them and feeding them complete bull.:)
(from MSG) 'Isn't that that guy, from that other network? The script kiddy?' 'Yes.' 'the one that tried to hack you.' 'Yes.' 'And you are talking to him?' 'Yes.' 'WHY?' 'Shh,Watch.:)'
(In chan, after some yacking about and playing stupid, he was posing as a billing person from my ISP;) ) 'Oh, you need my new credit card info for that. let me msg it to you.' 'ok.'
(later, after he left) 'WTF! You gave him a CC number?' 'Yeah, of a old card.' 'I don't understand.' 'The card was reported stolen a year ago.' 'Yeah...okay..so, it won't work.' 'No, it wont, but guess what happens when you try to use a *stolen* credit card?' '......' 'OHHHHH!'
This sort of reminds me when I wrote a counter-bug to combat an email worm that had infested an office building I was contracting to. Worked through the ever-so-lovely 'You don't have to really click the attachment for it to go off on you' bug in an older version of outlook.
It sat and watched a users inbox for the big bug at the time and pretty much acted like a counteragent, the instant they showed up, it nuked them off the machine (inbox and all) and undid whatver they managed to do.
Send one copy to everybody in the office, and instantly watch outgoing network mail traffic DROP back down to normal levels and my phone stop ringing.
I seem to recall distinctly 'forgetting' to mail it to key people, however.. *cough*:)
Would be a real shame if some of the geek-prowess around the OSS world were to start doing such counter-bugs. Alot of these backdoors, trojans, and whatnot, have gaping flaws in them because..well, guess.:P
Just think: Infect > Disinfect > Patch > Scan nearby machines (proceed life cycle)> Local Self-remove
Could be the next revolution. Don't bother patching or downloading, we bring the cure to YOU..:)
Out here who took notice that this is more or less the same old hat trick of resetting connections that has been around
SINCE THE CREATION OF TCP/IP?
*Duh*
c'mon, script kiddys have been throwing packets to reset connections for years.
Same old trick, new aplication. Yes, now we all have the ability to throw a good fingerpoint at a vendor or two and say shame on them, and make some great BSD-is-safe-again! remarks.
Moving right along...The only people 'vulnerable' to this are people who don't configure routers/firewalls or BGP's properly to use hashing, or no-brainer spoof blocking at the forefront, etc.
And guess what that means? They should have paid closer attention in class. Darwin works in more places than just the gene pool.
1. No data is collected by our software that isn't already collected when our software is downloaded.
The only personally identifiable information that we have would be the executer's IP address. However this information is freely available at time of download and is completly public information.
Uhm, wait, but collecting IP addys is data. And you also collect what file they were trying to download, and where/who they got it from? I'd say building a track list of a 'social' network of where a file goes and by how/whom is plenty of data.
I'm sorry,but thats a load. Get a better legal advisor, next!
3. We dissagree with the notion that this is a "Trojan". A trojan horse gains access to a system through deviant methods. Not through user initiated downloads on a P2P network. Secondly, a trojan horse by definition has a payload or attempts to give the author access by working from the inside. Our program is aboslutely dormant unless specifically and purposefully executed by the downloader. And the program is riddled with cues to what the contents might be. For instance, the company name is "C.R.A.P. Citizens Raging Against Pirates". Not what you'd expect from a "legitimate" crack or keygen.
Okay, lets see, its not a trojan, yet its a trojan. It's not a trojan because it comes from a p2p network, and not..what, outlook? Got it! Thanks for clearing that up!
Okay, great idea, really, very funny! But WTF are these guys going to do with all this when, say, MS steps in with a great big legal order of doom saying 'we want to know everybody who thought they were downloading the windows source code'? Are these people even thinking that far ahead?
And I love the broad thinking that anybody downloading a keygen is a pirate, What, these guys never lost a Cd key before? Yesh. Get a grip kids.
Points for some very crative programing, but they lost points for not finding something better to do and not thinking ahead a few more feet of them.
Just because they are searching for hash matches instead of plaintext doesn't mean profiling en-mass is right. It just means nosey companys who are being 'asked' won't know WHAT they are being 'asked' about.
Gee, bob the builder knowns mahek alzis. Mahek is a suspected link betwene so and so, and then he works for this manager, and then these people. Hmm, we better start asking alot of questions..see who else matches our '(personal network) search criteria'
What, you think i'm kidding?:)
(And yes, some of you are going to explode that this sort of search-and-peck is not profiling, when it really is. Look it up. Searching through personal *profiles* and *information* to find any people who match enough of the criteria = profiling.)
This sort of thing is bull, It really is. Instead of doing real investigative work, they can just whip up a list of 'possible hits',snatch them all up, and then queston and otherwise probably scare the shit out of all of them - hoping their deeper searches find a hit in the crowd.
Welcome to the nightmare, please don't choke on the red pill while the door is hitting you in the ass.:)
Just look at some ISP's EULA and service agreements and whatnot.
A large number of them have started putting in a (rather breif and fuzzy) comment about things that can get you cut off (short of not paying your bills)
Many of them are starting to include refrences to 'unathorized use of account' in such a way that would most easily be pointed at trojans and backdoors and other such nasties.
Now comes the funny part: These are the same ISP's who nolonger bundle browsers with their products on a CD. How many times have I run across people who have become infected by these nasties due to IE and outlook? I'v lost count!
Nevermind the fact none of them have any virus protection what so ever. (And the mail servers for their provider doesnt even filter the bugs out, either.)
Truth of the matter is, users who end up getting cut off because they are too lazy, stupid, or completely without clue, would benifit from having a CD filled with safer software.
I personaly can't hand out copys of mozilla or thunderbird fast enough.. Every time I get calls from a user about viri, its the same routine. VNC in, fix and upgrade, install moz, remove IE/outlook shortcuts (all with the users permission)
Most of them are more than happy once they see that 'those other browsers' are no harder to use than the one they already know.
Cutting access, granted, is half the fix, not all of it. ISP's need to make a little more effort in protecting its uers. And why not? Plenty of NICE and FREE alternatives out there they could hand out!
Now, I would go and edit this post a few more times, but I'm going to go watch clam eat viri-mails for breakfest. (Yummy!)
Oddly enough, since I started my webhosting ordeal, I have found that complete and utter newbies ARE oddly good at picking up the command line.
For example, I walk most first time customers through the usual setups, SCP client, SSH client,Mail, all that depending on what OS they are on.
I swear, it takes me three times as long to walk them through the GUI stuff, with all its bells and whistles they have to think about.And then the 'hard part' of the command line, they are off and banging away within a few short minuts. In fact, I have had a few newbies take one look at Pine and go 'Oohh, neat, I don't even need a program to use it!'
AND THEY USE IT(pine)!
And you have no idea what I mean when I say 'newbie', I mean literal 'Just got away from yahoo webhosting, does not even know HTML yet' newbie. Picked the command line right up, and yet I got two more calls for the damn GUI client. And this is hardly the first time.
Okay, I'm not into this whole 'the landing was faked' thing either, but you people are all looking at this from the 'debunk the debunkers' angle. No. Okay? Take your hands off your eyes and see a little reality here.
Space programs are based on reputations, funding, and interest in them. Read: MONEY. Its science, but its based on MONEY, like any other biz.
Now, NASA was planning on doing this great big research paper on why the landing was real, and publishing it, however, as we all know, that was a little overboard and it got turned down only days after it was thought up, granted.
Instead, these other scientists (Who have this great big fancy telescope that can read your paper from hundreds of miles away) who step in and say
'Hey! Why don't we just point this bad boy over at the moon for a change, show off our powerful telescope and what kind of clarity it can offer, and also help out NASA in their little PR operation at the same time, we scratch their back, maybe they will come to use out telescope for OTHER means as well, and we can get some more funding from world awareness of OUR project as well!'
That's all it really is, in more or less terms. On a lighter note, this will give us some fresh new cool photographs of the moons surface we can all enjoy ( Admit it,all the space buffs have seen the same tired and old photographs over and over in the past years, it will be nice to have some NEW ones.)
I say go for it, more power to science, space, and interstellar photography for the sake of cool factor.:)
Good thing the first image I saw was the bathroom.
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Because I just about pissed myself AND spewed my drink all over myself.
No, no, not because of the graphics, but because it looks just like the bathrooms where I used to work,blood,demons and all,very very scary.
Also.. I have one soul for sale. Anybody want it? I need the money to rebuild my gaming rig when this comes out. Be warned, this soul is probably going to hell when it expires..:)
Jeeze, this is going around your E to your A, people.
Anybody remember the tempest device? Able to lock on to a RF signal produced by hardware and reconstruct it, get displays, and rummored to be able to even spy on a CPU's activity if finely tuned enough. I read a rather lenghty article on how to build one years ago, but I'll be damned if I remember where I found it. I suggest a goodle hunt. The frightening thing is, the people who built it, were able to pick out a single display in a large office building -- eight blocks away.
RF signals are easyer to get to than the reflection of a monitors glow, I would think.
Because my web service disclaims any and all responsibility for user content/traffic/etc.,
I think I will be making a few 'adjustments' to just what the system logs, or
rather, does not log.
They want IP addresses? okie dokie, I can give them the last 30 minutes of
IP addresses, sure. Seeing as how I only check my e-mail once every hour, and
my phone line is more often than not, busy. I sure hope they can get ahold of
me in 30 minutes for those precious IP addresses, user logins,e-mail traffic
logs, etc. etc.etc....Have to keep that/var directory neat and tidy you know.:)
"We demand logs of this time and this user under the such and such act of blah blah blah! you must comply!"
"Uh, sure, one problem, they dont exist anymore, sorry. have a nice day! *click*"
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Well looks like they got slashdotted again.
/after/ the event in NY.... ;)
I'm one of the guys doing the streaming video. (praying that the bandwidth at this shop is enough to do the job, which we check today in fact.) Thats about the reach of my involvment, show up, hook things up, point the camera so the people in VR can see/hear whats going on, provide the streamer and the bandwidth, etc. They just call us up when they need it done.
We also did the new york SLCC event (which was made problematic due to L3 and cogent crapping on each other at the same time),but it was more or less the same idea at the NY law school. Was actualy quite cool!
It sounds weird from the outside, but it's a neat trick to pull off. It's a very sureal connection when you have a copy of a real place with real people being shown in an exact copy of the same place in VR and vice versa. You have instances where people look back and forth at each other and wave or talk across a digital void. It's just not something you commonly see every day.
Think of it as a RL/VR two way mirror.
It also has its entertaining moments. For example, the VR streaker running by the VR camera wearing black censor bars in the middle of some linden's speech, projected in giant bold clarity beind them.
But aside from that, I just hope this shop isnt running some lame ISDN modem or something like that.
And now, for shameless plugging. Servercave.com, thats us. Yup. We do it for the advertizing, because we can. (Because last time, they didn't get our link up till nearly
Once on contract, I opted to burn a little waste money and make a point to our client (who was trying to shake down on in-house contracts for IT people)
:)
:P
Called MS support claiming a 'mouse on our terminal server was refusing to work.'
To keep a long story short, this poor sap ran us through eveyrthing to try and get it working again (including checking driver files and system stuff, I even got moved up the line a couple times)
After about an hour, they finaly break down to the good old 'you need to re-install the OS.' lament. (read: we have no idea, re-install!)
He forgot one thing however:
'is it plugged in?'
Sigh..
This more or less made it clear to our client's that they need in-house support and can't rely on some underpaid yutz on a phone to do the job right.
(Nervermind the kind of noises the guy made on the phone when I mentioned we were working on migrating alot of our backend servers to *nix, hee!)
Paypal is out to make money - Not out to make YOU money.
/any/ proof of /any/ wrong doing..
:P
That being said, we dropped paypal service completey. Sorry, but if some snotty little brat can call paypal and just 'complain' about my account (this happened!) and LOCK IT FOEVER without
Then these people are a little trigger happy.
F*uck em, F*uck em with a 10 ton anal probe. There are better ways out there now, and paypals stupid, braindead methods of screwing their customers is going the way of the dodo bird, the popularity they have from 'before' they went south is just going to take a while to burn off.
FYI: Of the accounts they lock, they only 'pay out' so many of them. (You have to break some arms to get it, too.)
Why else do you think their reports and whatnot always look so great? Shaving a little off the customers to make ends meet better..
[/bitter]
Social engeneering is fun.
:)
;) )
It's even more fun when others don't notice that you are on to them and feeding them complete bull.
(from MSG)
'Isn't that that guy, from that other network? The script kiddy?'
'Yes.'
'the one that tried to hack you.'
'Yes.'
'And you are talking to him?'
'Yes.'
'WHY?'
'Shh,Watch.:)'
(In chan, after some yacking about and playing stupid, he was posing as a billing person from my ISP
'Oh, you need my new credit card info for that. let me msg it to you.'
'ok.'
(later, after he left)
'WTF! You gave him a CC number?'
'Yeah, of a old card.'
'I don't understand.'
'The card was reported stolen a year ago.'
'Yeah...okay..so, it won't work.'
'No, it wont, but guess what happens when you try to use a *stolen* credit card?'
'......'
'OHHHHH!'
Hee!:)
This sort of reminds me when I wrote a counter-bug to combat an email worm that had infested an office building I was contracting to. Worked through the ever-so-lovely 'You don't have to really click the attachment for it to go off on you' bug in an older version of outlook.
:)
:P
:)
It sat and watched a users inbox for the big bug at the time and pretty much acted like a counteragent, the instant they showed up, it nuked them off the machine (inbox and all) and undid whatver they managed to do.
Send one copy to everybody in the office, and instantly watch outgoing network mail traffic DROP back down to normal levels and my phone stop ringing.
I seem to recall distinctly 'forgetting' to mail it to key people, however.. *cough*
Would be a real shame if some of the geek-prowess around the OSS world were to start doing such counter-bugs. Alot of these backdoors, trojans, and whatnot, have gaping flaws in them because..well, guess.
Just think:
Infect > Disinfect > Patch > Scan nearby machines (proceed life cycle)> Local Self-remove
Could be the next revolution. Don't bother patching or downloading, we bring the cure to YOU..
The beating of war drums this morning.
Go get 'em, Big blue.
And for the record, I'm not holding that whole 'business tie standard' thing against you. I mean that!
Out here who took notice that this is more or less the same old hat trick of resetting connections that has been around
SINCE THE CREATION OF TCP/IP?
*Duh*
c'mon, script kiddys have been throwing packets to reset connections for years.
Same old trick, new aplication. Yes, now we all have the ability to throw a good fingerpoint at a vendor or two and say shame on them, and make some great BSD-is-safe-again! remarks.
Moving right along...The only people 'vulnerable' to this are people who don't configure routers/firewalls or BGP's properly to use hashing, or no-brainer spoof blocking at the forefront, etc.
And guess what that means? They should have paid closer attention in class. Darwin works in more places than just the gene pool.
Can you spot the shoot-self-in-foot-notes?
..what, outlook? Got it! Thanks for clearing that up!
1. No data is collected by our software that isn't already collected when our software is downloaded. The only personally identifiable information that we have would be the executer's IP address. However this information is freely available at time of download and is completly public information.
Uhm, wait, but collecting IP addys is data. And you also collect what file they were trying to download, and where/who they got it from? I'd say building a track list of a 'social' network of where a file goes and by how/whom is plenty of data.
I'm sorry,but thats a load. Get a better legal advisor, next!
3. We dissagree with the notion that this is a "Trojan".
A trojan horse gains access to a system through deviant methods. Not through user initiated downloads on a P2P network. Secondly, a trojan horse by definition has a payload or attempts to give the author access by working from the inside. Our program is aboslutely dormant unless specifically and purposefully executed by the downloader. And the program is riddled with cues to what the contents might be. For instance, the company name is "C.R.A.P. Citizens Raging Against Pirates". Not what you'd expect from a "legitimate" crack or keygen.
Okay, lets see, its not a trojan, yet its a trojan. It's not a trojan because it comes from a p2p network, and not
Okay, great idea, really, very funny! But WTF are these guys going to do with all this when, say, MS steps in with a great big legal order of doom saying 'we want to know everybody who thought they were downloading the windows source code'? Are these people even thinking that far ahead?
And I love the broad thinking that anybody downloading a keygen is a pirate, What, these guys never lost a Cd key before? Yesh. Get a grip kids.
Points for some very crative programing, but they lost points for not finding something better to do and not thinking ahead a few more feet of them.
Still don't like it.
:)
:)
Just because they are searching for hash matches instead of plaintext doesn't mean profiling en-mass is right. It just means nosey companys who are being 'asked' won't know WHAT they are being 'asked' about.
Gee, bob the builder knowns mahek alzis. Mahek is a suspected link betwene so and so, and then he works for this manager, and then these people. Hmm, we better start asking alot of questions..see who else matches our '(personal network) search criteria'
What, you think i'm kidding?
(And yes, some of you are going to explode that this sort of search-and-peck is not profiling, when it really is. Look it up. Searching through personal *profiles* and *information* to find any people who match enough of the criteria = profiling.)
This sort of thing is bull, It really is. Instead of doing real investigative work, they can just whip up a list of 'possible hits',snatch them all up, and then queston and otherwise probably scare the shit out of all of them - hoping their deeper searches find a hit in the crowd.
Welcome to the nightmare, please don't choke on the red pill while the door is hitting you in the ass.
[/tinfoil-hat]
Just look at some ISP's EULA and service agreements and whatnot.
A large number of them have started putting in a (rather breif and fuzzy) comment about things that can get you cut off (short of not paying your bills)
Many of them are starting to include refrences to 'unathorized use of account' in such a way that would most easily be pointed at trojans and backdoors and other such nasties.
Now comes the funny part:
These are the same ISP's who nolonger bundle browsers with their products on a CD. How many times have I run across people who have become infected by these nasties due to IE and outlook? I'v lost count!
Nevermind the fact none of them have any virus protection what so ever. (And the mail servers for their provider doesnt even filter the bugs out, either.)
Truth of the matter is, users who end up getting cut off because they are too lazy, stupid, or completely without clue, would benifit from having a CD filled with safer software.
I personaly can't hand out copys of mozilla or thunderbird fast enough.. Every time I get calls from a user about viri, its the same routine. VNC in, fix and upgrade, install moz, remove IE/outlook shortcuts (all with the users permission)
Most of them are more than happy once they see that 'those other browsers' are no harder to use than the one they already know.
Cutting access, granted, is half the fix, not all of it. ISP's need to make a little more effort in protecting its uers. And why not? Plenty of NICE and FREE alternatives out there they could hand out!
Now, I would go and edit this post a few more times, but I'm going to go watch clam eat viri-mails for breakfest. (Yummy!)
Oddly enough, since I started my webhosting ordeal, I have found that complete and utter newbies ARE oddly good at picking up the command line.
:)
For example, I walk most first time customers through the usual setups, SCP client, SSH client,Mail, all that depending on what OS they are on.
I swear, it takes me three times as long to walk them through the GUI stuff, with all its bells and whistles they have to think about.And then the 'hard part' of the command line, they are off and banging away within a few short minuts. In fact, I have had a few newbies take one look at Pine and go 'Oohh, neat, I don't even need a program to use it!'
AND THEY USE IT(pine)!
And you have no idea what I mean when I say 'newbie', I mean literal 'Just got away from yahoo webhosting, does not even know HTML yet' newbie. Picked the command line right up, and yet I got two more calls for the damn GUI client. And this is hardly the first time.
Sometimes I really love this line of work..
Okay, I'm not into this whole 'the landing was faked' thing either, but you people are all looking at this from the 'debunk the debunkers' angle. No. Okay? Take your hands off your eyes and see a little reality here.
:)
Space programs are based on reputations, funding, and interest in them. Read: MONEY. Its science, but its based on MONEY, like any other biz.
Now, NASA was planning on doing this great big research paper on why the landing was real, and publishing it, however, as we all know, that was a little overboard and it got turned down only days after it was thought up, granted.
Instead, these other scientists (Who have this great big fancy telescope that can read your paper from hundreds of miles away) who step in and say
'Hey! Why don't we just point this bad boy over at the moon for a change, show off our powerful telescope and what kind of clarity it can offer, and also help out NASA in their little PR operation at the same time, we scratch their back, maybe they will come to use out telescope for OTHER means as well, and we can get some more funding from world awareness of OUR project as well!'
That's all it really is, in more or less terms. On a lighter note, this will give us some fresh new cool photographs of the moons surface we can all enjoy ( Admit it,all the space buffs have seen the same tired and old photographs over and over in the past years, it will be nice to have some NEW ones.)
I say go for it, more power to science, space, and interstellar photography for the sake of cool factor.
Because I just about pissed myself AND spewed my drink all over myself.
:)
No, no, not because of the graphics, but because it looks just like the bathrooms where I used to work,blood,demons and all,very very scary.
Also..
I have one soul for sale. Anybody want it? I need the money to rebuild my gaming rig when this comes out. Be warned, this soul is probably going to hell when it expires..
Seen in an actual program...
"//This code is not commented so that you may
//comment it to your own liking.
//plz do not send me back commented code!"
I don't know weather to laugh, or cry.
Jeeze, this is going around your E to your A, people.
Anybody remember the tempest device? Able to lock on to a RF signal produced by hardware and reconstruct it, get displays, and rummored to be able to even spy on a CPU's activity if finely tuned enough. I read a rather lenghty article on how to build one years ago, but I'll be damned if I remember where I found it. I suggest a goodle hunt. The frightening thing is, the people who built it, were able to pick out a single display in a large office building -- eight blocks away.
RF signals are easyer to get to than the reflection of a monitors glow, I would think.
Because my web service disclaims any and all responsibility for user content/traffic/etc., I think I will be making a few 'adjustments' to just what the system logs, or rather, does not log.
They want IP addresses? okie dokie, I can give them the last 30 minutes of IP addresses, sure. Seeing as how I only check my e-mail once every hour, and my phone line is more often than not, busy. I sure hope they can get ahold of me in 30 minutes for those precious IP addresses, user logins,e-mail traffic logs, etc. etc.etc....Have to keep that /var directory neat and tidy you know. :)
"We demand logs of this time and this user under the such and such act of blah blah blah! you must comply!"
"Uh, sure, one problem, they dont exist anymore, sorry. have a nice day! *click*"
But seriously..c'mon :P
so here it is.
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Two words: TWIG anyone?