Tim Ransom's Feeble Mind

Message ID: 367122 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-04-25 13:06:00 Subject: Re: The Mythical Linux Security Trool Recs: 6 Guess what!?!: http://www.joeyfiasco.com/mp3/fever.mp3 !!! ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution by the Yahoo Message Board user "timransom@rogers.com" under the following license: License:  CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0 ------------------------------------------------------------

Message ID: 365846 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-04-21 15:44:00 Subject: Re: OT: Yahoo and censorship Recs: 10 My experience has been that Y! account nuking is just random. I have received over half a dozen warnings over the years, none of which informed me of what exactly I had allegedly done to earn them (although in most cases the timing indicated disgruntled adversaries resorting to skullduggery in lieu of wit). My old mitmosnar nym racked up the bulk of them, but was never nuked. I have had one account nuked, and that one received no warning or explanation at all. The comment that appears to have caused the nuking was one my wiseacre wife posted wherein she mocked the M'OG PJ outing by suggesting that JVM "has a copy of Journey to Ixtlan in his back seat". Oddly, the rest of the thread remained, although the whole thing was devoted to listing JVM's many "crimes", such as taking more than 12 items to the express aisle ...

Message ID: 365840 Posted By: hamjudo2000 Posted On: 2006-04-21 15:38:00 Subject: Re: OT: Yahoo and censorship Recs: 6 >> This makes me wonder - if they are so easy to cave in on these requests, why hasn't SCOX done the same thing, and have their shills report the truth tellers here, and have us all nuked?<< We're ready for that. The contents of the board are archived in several places, so no material would be lost. If this stops working, we've got places to go. For example scoxe.com or groklaw. We have media contacts, so we can generate plenty of bad publicity for SCOX. Most importantly, if individuals were banned, it would reinvigorate the group. Lately we've spent a fair amount of time in troll land, because SCOX is not producing much news. If SCOX took an offensive action, the defensive reaction would refocus us in ways that SCOX would not like. ------------------------------------------------------------ The text of this Yahoo M...

Message ID: 365798 Posted By: saltydogmn Posted On: 2006-04-21 14:09:00 Subject: OT: Yahoo and censorship Recs: 22 Well, all the trolls in the world couldn't do it; jeffy couldn't do it; biff sure as hell couldn't do it; anmcbride couldn't do it; but some boiler room pumpers in the GTW board could do it - silence one of their critics. I created a nym over there, named gtw_is_a_non_profit, and volunteered to have myself reported to the SEC, for quoting complete extracts from Gateway SEC filings. Of course, none of the shills actually bothered to do it. I tried logging in over there today, and I couldn't. No idea why, either... so I find a number for Yahoo, call them up, get an actual human (in New Delhi, most likely, but still, an actual person to talk to), and find out my account had been nuked, for TOS violations; none of which he could actually tell me about, but it was nuked. This makes me winder - if they are so easy to cave in on these req...

Message ID: 362545 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-04-12 15:56:00 Subject: Re: City to City Tour 2006! pt.2 Recs: 4 I live in Toronto, and I've never heard of Dave and Buster's, but it looks like Chuck-E-Cheese for adults: << Dave & Buster's Million Dollar Midway is packed to the rafters with an unsurpassed selection of the greatest in video and interactive gaming. With your Power Card charged up, you're ready to play games, win tickets and claim your prizes! From the classics to the latest in cutting edge action games, there's something for everyone in our Million Dollar Midway.>> http://www.daveandbusters.com/Games/Midway.aspx I guess they couldn't find a place anywhere near actual civilization, 'cause Vaughan might as well be Mars to your average Torontonian. I'm not hiring a guide and a sled team just to watch these clowns play asteroids. ------------------------------------------------------------ ...

Message ID: 362525 Posted By: atul666 Posted On: 2006-04-12 15:38:00 Subject: City to City Tour 2006! pt.2 Recs: 4 And now for the actual city-to-city events. Here's the breakneck schedule: LA: May 2nd, Dave & Buster's, Orange, CA Chicago: May 4th, Dave & Buster's, Addison, IL. NYC: May 9th, Dave & Buster's, Times Square Atlanta: May 10th, Dave & Buster's, Duluth, GA. Orlando May 11th, Residence Inn @ SeaWorld Toronto: May 18th, Dave & Buster's, Vaughan, Ont. I don't know about you, but looking over the venue list, I see a pattern developing. A couple clues about what I think it might be: http://www.daveandbusters.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_&_Buster's From the WP article: >> Dave & Buster's does not admit people under age 21 unless accompanied by a person age 25 or older who agrees to be responsible for the underage individual's conduct. Each adult may accom...

Message ID: 362508 Posted By: atul666 Posted On: 2006-04-12 15:21:00 Subject: City to City Tour 2006! Recs: 4 Another day, another stupid SCO press release. They'll be "exhibiting" at a few tradeshows this year, which is Big News apparently. >> DTR Conference, MySQL Users Conference, the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB), Open Systems Partners in Profit Conference, and BASIS Tech Conference 2006. << Several of these seemed rather obscure, so I did a little digging: * The DTR Conference is coming up in 2 weeks, at the Luxor casino in Vegas. DTR is one of SCO's longtime partners from the OldSCO era, and this is just a little show for their partners and resellers. http://www.dtrbus.com/news.html The conference agenda indicates that much of it is going to be about SCO products, and also suggests the conference will be rather small. You have your choice between a SCO-centric track and a Vista-centric track. Eegah! ht...

Message ID: 359397 Posted By: timransom@rogers.com Posted On: 2006-04-03 12:25:00 Subject: Re: Anyone else get one of these? Recs: 4 I've received half a dozen of those things, and nothing has ever come of them. Any tard who wants to can click the 'report abuse' link, resulting in you receiving the automated letter that you got. On the other hand, the one account I had that got nuked (onelinepostguy) disappeared with no such warning. Just *woosh*, and there it was, gone. Hilariously, the post that got the account nuked appears to have been one written by my mischievous wife, who has occasionally posted using my accounts to amuse and annoy me. It was a thread in which people were listing mundane 'crimes' of JVM, such as 'wears socks with sandals'. Imitating M'OG's outing of PJ, she wrote that he 'has a copy of Journey to Ixtlan on his back seat'. The next thing you know, the account and all of its posts disappeared. I have...

Message ID: 359272 Posted By: saltydogmn Posted On: 2006-04-02 22:08:00 Subject: Anyone else get one of these? Recs: 18 Looks like someone is whining to Yahoo - about what, though - telling the truth? ---------------------------------------------- X-Gmail-Received: 43109b961d1679e94070ecaa49900cbaf3a4c6e7 Delivered-To: saltydogmn@gmail.com Received: by 10.48.248.17 with SMTP id v17cs17305nfh; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.13.12 with SMTP id 12mr1351453wxm; Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path:< yahoo@yahoo-inc.com> Received: from relay1.sdv.yahoo.com (relay1.sdv.yahoo.com [66.218.81.176]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h11si339433wxd.2006.04.02.18.59....