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Rich, who is special, found this game: grant.robinson.name/projects/guess%2Dthe%2Dgoogle/

The way you play is you’re shown a bunch of images and you have to guess the search word that was put into Gooogle to collect them.

Rich’s co-worker Zack Komniar sent it to Rich oringally.

Alright Brain, you don’t like me, and I don’t like you. But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.

Be quiet, Brain, or I’ll stab you with a Q-tip

Life is just one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn’t, its that girls should stick to girl’s sports, such as hot oil wrestling foxy boxy and such and such…

I try not to just re-post slashdot, but this one was impossible to read at the time because the link got slash-dotted (what happens to a tinny server when all the slashdot readers go and hit it). So figured it’d be handy if I put a copy here and explained what’s up.

In order to appreciate this story you have to know a little about how the internet works. Communications over the internet, at it’s base network layer, uses a protocol called TCP/IP, Transfer Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. These IP numbers are the system of unique numbers given to computers on the internet. Names like yahoo.com acutally map back to an IP number, the domain name is only there to make it alot easier to connect to the number. Other protocols like HTTP, FTP, MSN Messenger, IRC (Internet Relay Chat) all operate as a layer on top of this protocol. It is the IP number system that makes the internet so robust.

According to Wikipedia, IP version 4, the current standard, uses 32-bit addresses, limiting it to 4,294,967,296 unique numbers. These numbers are in Dotted Decimal formant, like 207.142.131.235. Since IP numbers are scarce they are assigned by The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in ranges. For example, Brock University was assigned 139.57.XXX.XXX and Geulph University 131.104.XXX.XXX, people with old-school cable modems have IPs that start with 24.

There are some numbers that have been reserved for special tasks, for example, 192.168.XXX.XXX was reserved for private networks and is now the IP range used by most home routers and wireless routers. One very useful reservation was the use of 127.0.0.1 to refer to your own computer. For example, if you have a Mac and goto System Preference > Sharing and turn on web sharing you can type 127.0.0.1 in your web browser and see your own web server – it will work with the network unplugged. Wikipedia has more on the classes of IP addresses.

One more note: Ping is a a tool used to check if a computer at an IP number is on and how long it takes to send information to it.

This is the story of The Planet’s Most Moronic Hacker (the IRC log at least):

Something nice I read on www.stophiphop.de (got pointed there by a comment on www.macguardians.de) is this nice story of a hacker: http://www.beast.mos-worlds.de/modules/new…php?s toryid=184 (site might be down, quite a lot of people are reading this).

In case you don’t speak german (just as this hacker), I’ve tried a little translation to english. I might have made some spelling errors, but the original spelling wasn’t perfect either. The guy really said \"buy buy\" in the german version. I’ve posted this on the forum on http://www.desertcombat.com before, so if this looks familiar, might be the same. All censoring was done by this particular forum here.
Notice that in germany we get DST earlier than in the US.

The story starts (I’m shortcutting here) with an [Please control your cussing] insulting everyone on the IRC channel. Most people there believed it was rather funny, but it got even more funny. For information: The dangerous hacker is called bitchchecker and the one being hacked and original author of the comments, who is talking here, is known as Elch. 127.0.0.1 is always the IP-adress of the computer you’re currently using, any request there will return to your computer.

QUOTE
* bitchchecker ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout#)
* bitchchecker ([email protected]) has joined #stopHipHop
bitchchecker: why do you kick me
bitchchecker: can’t you discus normally
bitchchecker: answer!
Elch: we didn’t kick you
Elch: you had a ping timeout: * bitchchecker ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout#)
bitchchecker: what ping man
bitchchecker: the timing of my pc is right
bitchchecker: i even have dst
bitchchecker: you banned me
bitchchecker: amit it you son of a bitch
HopperHunter|afk: LOL
HopperHunter|afk: shit you’re stupid, DST^^
bitchchecker: shut your mouth WE HAVE DST!
bitchchecker: for two weaks already
bitchchecker: when you start your pc there is a message from windows that DST is applied.
Elch: You’re a real computer expert
bitchchecker: shut up i hack you
Elch: ok, i’m quiet, hope you don’t show us how good a hacker you are ^^
bitchchecker: tell me your network number man then you’re dead
Elch: Eh, it’s 129.0.0.1
Elch: or maybe 127.0.0.1
Elch: yes exactly that’s it: 127.0.0.1 I’m waiting for you great attack
bitchchecker: in five minutes your hard drive is deleted
Elch: Now I’m frightened
bitchchecker: shut up you’ll be gone
bitchchecker: i have a program where i enter your ip and you’re dead
bitchchecker: say goodbye
Elch: to whom?
bitchchecker: to you man
bitchchecker: buy buy
Elch: I’m shivering thinking about such great Hack0rs like you
* bitchchecker ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout#)

What happened is clear: That guy entered his own IP-Adress in his mighty Hack-Tool and crashed his own PC.
This way, the attack on my PC was a failure.
I was already starting to think that I did not have to worry, but a good hacker never calls it a day.
Two minutes later he returned.

QUOTE
* bitchchecker ([email protected]) has joined #stopHipHop
bitchchecker: dude be happy my pc crashed otherwise you’d be gone
Metanot: lol
Elch: bitchchecker: Then try hacking me again… I still have the same IP: 127.0.0.1
bitchchecker: you’re so stupid man
bitchchecker: say buy buy
Metanot: ah, [Please control your cussing] off
bitchchecker: buy buy elch
* bitchchecker ([email protected]) Quit (Ping timeout#)

There was a tensio

My initial advice is to take the offer from the NDP – remove the corporate tax cuts from the budget and pass it with their help. While you’re at it, increase foreign aid (or debut relief) to the 0.7% of GDP that you promised Bono when you took over the party and Pearson promised the UN all those years ago.

When this government falls, and I think it will soon, I don’ t think Canadians will want another election. Canada would set records for voter apathy and produce a turn out lower than Iraq’s. The right thing to do is either anticipate it or react to it by asking the Governor General to ask her loyal opposition party to form a government. After all, this is the year 2005, we all can get a fairly accurate assessment of the public’s preference and I think they want the conservatives to form a government.

This will give the public a chance to ‘punish’ the liberals, and give Mr. Harper a chance to govern, which he has earned (regardless as how little I personally desire it). Mr. Harper will have to face the reality of leading a minority and will look less like a welcome alternative and more like the Stephen Harper of old. After all that happens there’s a good chance that a Liberal minority can start again and Mr. Martin will have to plan ahead about how he’ll gain support, as opposed to expecting it.

In any case, don’t expect much in the way of governing in the next year.

Now that we know that the new Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, is Joseph Ratzinger a new watch begins:

At lunch today Jen noticed this raccoon in the trees at Brock in the square between Thistle and Welch Hall. The question is, is it dead or asleep? We could burn the tree and see if the smoke has that tell-tale white of a burning raccoon, but that method hasn’t worked well lately. Instead we’ll have to wait in the square to see if the raccoon moves from that spot.

UPDATE 04/20/05

Still no movement from that raccoon – but he probably smells of wet animal about now. Let’s hope the wind keeps up!

UPDATE 04/21/05

Alive! (or fell to the ground). This morning the racoon was no longer in the treee!