You're right, this is the most coordinated troll campaign in a long time. Multiple accounts, multiple pages. Perversely, I have been keeping notes, and this was in fact a page that did have Goatse on it previously.
My new theory is that someone is making money off this, either trying to degrade Slashdot or maybe even just server clicks.
REDACTED (used to have Goatse on it) But hotlinked image from REDACTED redirecting to REDACTED
"This is a psychological ploy allegedly used by security agencies to hide things that are really important and worth the effort. They set up two cover stories: The first cover story is public and something plausible. The second cover story is nutty and withheld, but evidence for it is planted. When somebody realizes that the first cover is a lie and digs deeper they encounter the planted evidence for the mind-numbingly wild second cover. Then they are placed in the position of either looking like a fruitcake or giving up. (After all, anything they dig up on the REAL story could also be another lie.)"
Maybe I missed a clause in my sentence structure. I agree with both you and the AC.
Republicans do things that lower taxes/Make Corps Happy/Bailouts/etc. Then they leave office. The disgust is enough to get a Democrat President elected on "Change". But to do his job, he's stuck with some 8 years of fiscal disaster grinding down his policy options. So he does a few things, but eventually has to get around to "making sacrifices and tightening" etc. However, the voters who elected him on Change forget that he can't pull miracles, and start getting upset at the austerity measures which are attempts to clean stuff up. Also they somehow can't understand why 8 years of mess can't be cleaned up in 4 years of repairs. So they vote the Democrat out of office.
But wait! He got enough done and made some slack, so there's more room now for more tax cuts and Making Corps Happy!
Okay, some really good comments here down the page, like yours.
First, Anonymous is going to get stuck in a lexico-logical trap in that the word "Anonymous" is like trying to count on a finger - you can't even parse the results grammatically sometimes. "(Some members of) Anonymous organized the boycott, but (other members of) Anonymous disagreed."
Above your comment, poster said that at the moment Anonymous did manage to gain just the barest bit of credibility. They've moved up that scale from "first you ignore them, then you....". That poster wondered if they would sink under ridicule when only low tier members of society actually showed up.
You raise the point that they also have an Authentication problem that's actually a really good topic for the techies here. How do you certify communications as "legit Anonymous" without being various infiltrating moles? I would qualify your statement that the *original* members of Anonymous were definitely anti-system politically, but by now the integrity of the original group is under attack by fiendish agents orchestrating stuff.
"Ooh - I know this one! Let's get every member of Anonymous to show up, then we can take pictures of the participant all smiling, and post them to Facebook where we can tag them and... uh... "
These guys should avoid doing real life events... because then they wouldn't be Anonymous anymore would they? In fact it shows how fragile the fight to keep anonymity is with mega-billions all pouring into tracking initiatives both gov and private... and naive Web 2.0 sharers!
(Rhetorical) Nah, keep the tax cuts. Just pulverize the military. Do the whole Cardassians Left Bajor thing and we can use the pantheon of DS9 to guide us through the mess. (/Rhetorical)
No? See, that's the deadliest political trap of all, the one the Republicans built their party on - "We'll have fun giving people tax cuts and we'll make the Democrats clean up the mess!" Then the Masses don't understand why things are so tough, and they elect in more Republicans who "ease the burdens of sacrifice" with more tax cuts.
"That's right, don't use Jitsi. I repeat, don't use J I T S I. Or Debian Empathy. Emmmmmpathy."
Why are all the governments of 2011 acting like it's 1994 and the internet is this hot new thing to control after they sorta let it slide for 17 years? Separating forest from trees, all these gov desires are pretty low IQ. "MMMMM. Email. Gimme!" They couldn't have thought of that back when AOL was still the rage? Why now?
Theory: Fishbowl Effect. After we have finally had our fun with memes and made a fer.com dollars, the endless years of hyperconnectedness are going to drag on with not even a religious apocalypse to distract us, so those in power have nothing better to do than start salivating over hypertracking. Back in 1994 the web was still fun.
"...a bill that encourages science teachers to explore controversial topics without fear of reprisal."
So the article went straight from that wonderfully enlightened bill and went for creationism? Not partner preference, abortion, unsafe health conditions, or stem cells?
I can't tell what we've learned about this serious threat to privacy - there were 400 comments complaining about war policy ahead of you. I searched for the word email on the page and virtually nothing came up!
Really, the gov gets all emails more than 6 months old???
If ever Intel misses a beat for one of their upgrade cycles, then I would enjoy seeing MS double down on their code efficiency to keep all the features but have it thundering on the hardware.
We all know that Vista was never supposed to be taken seriously - it was a Hail Mary after someone's catastrophic meeting that the codebase had to be restarted from the ground up. Windows 7 was a decent effort at patching things up, but I'd really like to see them do an ultra lean edition.
There's got to be a way by hybridizing the two entities plus Print On Demand. Mashing up several posts, don't ship books anywhere (except Ex Libris sales), print a new one & count it as an aquisition. Don't wait for a book to be returned.Who cares? Send the guy a bill for purchase (Redbox model). It's a "guaranteed sale" because the person went to the trouble to "check it out". If he wakes up and doesn't want to purchase it, there's your return. Replacement charge = $5 for the in stock copy - but only when it's actually demanded.
And definitely ebay the lights out of everything - there's got to be people in the country who want X tome, so sell it. What is this "throw out" junk?
Is this catchphrase a restatement of the "Necessary vs Sufficient" principles? So Algebra might be Necessary (on a percentage scale) but it is not Sufficient. Also the percentage scale means you can succeed without it if a more difficult spread of counterbalancing factors shows up.
Slashdot Mirror
See my post above. NSFW!
You're right, this is the most coordinated troll campaign in a long time. Multiple accounts, multiple pages. Perversely, I have been keeping notes, and this was in fact a page that did have Goatse on it previously.
My new theory is that someone is making money off this, either trying to degrade Slashdot or maybe even just server clicks.
REDACTED (used to have Goatse on it)
But hotlinked image from
REDACTED
redirecting to
REDACTED
"This is a psychological ploy allegedly used by security agencies to hide things that are really important and worth the effort. They set up two cover stories: The first cover story is public and something plausible. The second cover story is nutty and withheld, but evidence for it is planted. When somebody realizes that the first cover is a lie and digs deeper they encounter the planted evidence for the mind-numbingly wild second cover. Then they are placed in the position of either looking like a fruitcake or giving up. (After all, anything they dig up on the REAL story could also be another lie.)"
+1 Matrix!
Maybe I missed a clause in my sentence structure. I agree with both you and the AC.
Republicans do things that lower taxes/Make Corps Happy/Bailouts/etc. Then they leave office.
The disgust is enough to get a Democrat President elected on "Change". But to do his job, he's stuck with some 8 years of fiscal disaster grinding down his policy options. So he does a few things, but eventually has to get around to "making sacrifices and tightening" etc. However, the voters who elected him on Change forget that he can't pull miracles, and start getting upset at the austerity measures which are attempts to clean stuff up. Also they somehow can't understand why 8 years of mess can't be cleaned up in 4 years of repairs. So they vote the Democrat out of office.
But wait! He got enough done and made some slack, so there's more room now for more tax cuts and Making Corps Happy!
"Ooh, I know this one! Is it Correlation or Causation? ('Cause we know they're not the same!)"
Okay, some really good comments here down the page, like yours.
First, Anonymous is going to get stuck in a lexico-logical trap in that the word "Anonymous" is like trying to count on a finger - you can't even parse the results grammatically sometimes. "(Some members of) Anonymous organized the boycott, but (other members of) Anonymous disagreed."
Above your comment, poster said that at the moment Anonymous did manage to gain just the barest bit of credibility. They've moved up that scale from "first you ignore them, then you ....". That poster wondered if they would sink under ridicule when only low tier members of society actually showed up.
You raise the point that they also have an Authentication problem that's actually a really good topic for the techies here. How do you certify communications as "legit Anonymous" without being various infiltrating moles? I would qualify your statement that the *original* members of Anonymous were definitely anti-system politically, but by now the integrity of the original group is under attack by fiendish agents orchestrating stuff.
Right start, but I think you missed the finish.
"Ooh - I know this one! Let's get every member of Anonymous to show up, then we can take pictures of the participant all smiling, and post them to Facebook where we can tag them and ... uh... "
These guys should avoid doing real life events ... because then they wouldn't be Anonymous anymore would they? In fact it shows how fragile the fight to keep anonymity is with mega-billions all pouring into tracking initiatives both gov and private ... and naive Web 2.0 sharers!
(Rhetorical)
Nah, keep the tax cuts. Just pulverize the military. Do the whole Cardassians Left Bajor thing and we can use the pantheon of DS9 to guide us through the mess. (/Rhetorical)
No? See, that's the deadliest political trap of all, the one the Republicans built their party on - "We'll have fun giving people tax cuts and we'll make the Democrats clean up the mess!" Then the Masses don't understand why things are so tough, and they elect in more Republicans who "ease the burdens of sacrifice" with more tax cuts.
That's awesome. They're crushing Amendments 1-10, but we have to believe in the sanctity of the 27th!
"That's right, don't use Jitsi. I repeat, don't use J I T S I. Or Debian Empathy. Emmmmmpathy."
Why are all the governments of 2011 acting like it's 1994 and the internet is this hot new thing to control after they sorta let it slide for 17 years? Separating forest from trees, all these gov desires are pretty low IQ. "MMMMM. Email. Gimme!" They couldn't have thought of that back when AOL was still the rage? Why now?
Theory: Fishbowl Effect. After we have finally had our fun with memes and made a fer .com dollars, the endless years of hyperconnectedness are going to drag on with not even a religious apocalypse to distract us, so those in power have nothing better to do than start salivating over hypertracking. Back in 1994 the web was still fun.
Oh! I know this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fGujzulsas
Requoting a sentence :
"...a bill that encourages science teachers to explore controversial topics without fear of reprisal."
So the article went straight from that wonderfully enlightened bill and went for creationism? Not partner preference, abortion, unsafe health conditions, or stem cells?
You could write 100 articles from that bill.
I can't tell what we've learned about this serious threat to privacy - there were 400 comments complaining about war policy ahead of you. I searched for the word email on the page and virtually nothing came up!
Really, the gov gets all emails more than 6 months old???
+1 Archaeopteryx.
"Please log into the internet with your global ID. No sites will load without it. "
Ooh - nice catch. Dependent causation eventually shows up somewhere as correlation.
Buddhists Like this too.
Start a blog with your EEG's live over the net!
www.Ihaveadream.com
Nah, that was probably 100 years ago courtesy of F. W. Woolworth. Before that everyone liked quality too much. Unhardened steel hats!
Everyone who says they can't keep in touch seems to have forgotten emails and IMs.
If ever Intel misses a beat for one of their upgrade cycles, then I would enjoy seeing MS double down on their code efficiency to keep all the features but have it thundering on the hardware.
We all know that Vista was never supposed to be taken seriously - it was a Hail Mary after someone's catastrophic meeting that the codebase had to be restarted from the ground up. Windows 7 was a decent effort at patching things up, but I'd really like to see them do an ultra lean edition.
Actually you're not so far off from a point under the radar.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Bell_System_divestiture
Take a look at what became of the Regional Bell Operating Companies.
Most of the former split companies are now rolled up into AT&T and Verizon.
Pretty thin article.
So what does "failing to lay a solid foundation" mean for overall patent suits in Texas?
There's got to be a way by hybridizing the two entities plus Print On Demand. Mashing up several posts, don't ship books anywhere (except Ex Libris sales), print a new one & count it as an aquisition. Don't wait for a book to be returned.Who cares? Send the guy a bill for purchase (Redbox model). It's a "guaranteed sale" because the person went to the trouble to "check it out". If he wakes up and doesn't want to purchase it, there's your return. Replacement charge = $5 for the in stock copy - but only when it's actually demanded.
And definitely ebay the lights out of everything - there's got to be people in the country who want X tome, so sell it. What is this "throw out" junk?
Maybe it only works if it's Steve Ballmer.
Is this catchphrase a restatement of the "Necessary vs Sufficient" principles? So Algebra might be Necessary (on a percentage scale) but it is not Sufficient. Also the percentage scale means you can succeed without it if a more difficult spread of counterbalancing factors shows up.