Yeah, I haven't updated in a little while. Not too much going on. My grandma's going to die soon, likely in the next couple of days. There's nothing sadder than the look on somebody's face when they know they're going to die, and have completely given up on living.
We had quite a bit of activity here last night. Z decided to be an idiot, pretend to be John Titor on ABS, and then make the ABS members think I was coming back (never going to happen). In the thread Z posted, Meglo decided to be an idiot and post a link to Framework. Obviously, I don't want thousands of morons knowing about our little slice of utopia. A poll was created in Framework to ban Meglo, at which point he created several accounts in a (futile) attempt to sway the vote. He was banned, and his extra accounts were removed. He then began to tell people in the ABS IRC channel about Framework. This may be continuing, but I don't really care. I'm just sick of him messing around, annoying people, and trying to ruin everything. His IP is 69.144.180.63 and his email is bitdeviant@yahoo.com. I'm considering reporting him to his ISP for abuse. At the same time as Meglo's repeated advertising of Framework, the server hosting EMPTV received a severe DDoS attack from what appeared to be a Korean botnet. At the time, we believed it was Meglo's doing, until logs showed that this had been going on since the 4th. Sinner, with the help of PortSentry, was able to block the attack after a couple of hours. Sinner, you rock. Cyber_Cowboy compiled the PortSentry logs into this list of attacking IPs. Blocking them would probably be in your best interest. Cyber_Cowboy, you also rock. Things seemed to have calmed down now, although matttheguy noticed that Meglo seems to be a bit of a "cyberstalker" who follows him from IRC network to network. I'll keep updating as the situation changes.
Also, Jaketeck bought me an SA Forums account in exchange for web design. SA is an awesome place, it's the highest quality forum I've ever seen. Thanks, Jaketeck!
Thanks to Z and appLe for the new themes.
The Conet Project is interesting, and more than a little creepy. Give it a listen, I think this one is pretty scary.
RealmMaster wrote a rant:
"So I go outside a week or so ago to check the mail, and see something laying on my porch. I go to it and it seems to be a small phone book. This isn't unusual, as we usually get this other little one to compete with the bigger guys. I go and pick it up and its the "Hispanic Yellow Pages", and I nearly toss this bad boy into the street. Now, don't get me wrong, I think it's AWESOME that these people are coming to America (legally, I'm not for any illegal entry). I mean, we're a good country, which is shown by the fact that people WANT to come here. Now, my philosophy is that if you are going to visit a country, you should at least know a little of their language, and if you are moving there, you should have it down packed pretty much before you get there, or learn it right away when you do. How else are you going to interact with its citizens. Expect us to change everything to your language? That's not really fair now is it? This goes for Americans going to other countries too. Sure there are Americans that go to other countries and expect them to speak English, but they are just as ignorant as those that come here and do the same. My deal is: Wanna visit? Know what you need to get by. Wanna live here? Learn the language. Period."
DC++ is a great program if you can find good hubs.
idown wanted me to post this:
"I recently bought a book called "X-treme Latin" by Henry Beard. I recommend everyone get it becaue of the sheer fact that it teaches you to say "Linge bacillum glycyrrhizae meum" which is roughly translated to "Lick my licorice stick", along with "Liguri lacertam quae sub toga mea vivit" that translates to "Lollipop my toga lizard". Here are more great latin insults and statements.
"Lege labris volumen inguinale mihi - Lip-read my trouser scroll
"Impone vectigalia pauperibus! - Tax the poor
"Oppetite mortem lumine amplificato stimulata emissione radiorum, cimices extraterrestriales foedi - Taste laser death alien insect scum
"Defrauda nationes minores in tua civitate - Screw minorities
"NIsi mecum concubueris, phobistae vicerint - If you don't sleep with me, the terrorists have won
"Solve lora infernis - Unleash Hell
"And of course there's the great bumper sticker: Te amat Iesus, ceteri te putant irrumatorem - Jesus loves you, everyone else thinks you're an asshole
"Quagis - Wassup
"Em, ichneumon, tempus est sufflamina temptare - Okay tailgater, time for a brake check
"And as a final note: Futae te ipsum - Go fuck yourself."
Oh, and CASH wants you all to know that he was drunk last night. We're proud of you, buddy!
<~rmuser> http://emptv.com/fuckingkoreans.php
<~rmuser> I love the filename
<+Cyber_Cowboy> rmuser
<~rmuser> Cyber_Cowboy
<+Cyber_Cowboy> My site reads off of a sql db
<+Cyber_Cowboy> and I named the table 'fucking_koreans'
<~rmuser> HAHAHAHAHA
This is one hell of a story!
Well, the move seems to have gone just fine. Now there's more bandwidth, webstats, I have SSH access, and, thanks to the services of ZoneEdit, you can access the IRC channel by connecting to irc.emptv.com. I think I've fixed most of the problems, but if you notice anything wrong, please tell me. Strangely, this is the 200th update since the site's original creation.
I recently obtained a Gmail account, emptvz@gmail.com. It's better than any other webmail service I've used. For one thing, it outlines replies into an easy-to-follow layout, much like a conversation. Also, it lets you see full headers for every message. And unlike other free webmail providers, which usually disable your account if you don't log in for a month or two, Gmail won't disable your account for nine months. There's also a feature where you can "star" messages to mark them as important. Another useful feature is that display of external images in email is turned off by default, although you can click a link on the message to display the external images. It seems that emails are immediately indexed for the email search, unlike the delay of the web search. The advertisements are unobtrusive, and I actually havn't seen them on any of my emails besides Google's introductory email. Also, there are no advertisements for Gmail appended to emails you send, unlike Yahoo and Hotmail. And, one of the best features of all, any email sent to youraddress+whatever@gmail.com gets sent to youraddress@gmail.com. This has great potential. Messages can be filtered by what address they were sent to. You can use a custom address to register for a website, and if that address gets any spam, you'll know where it came from. Likewise, if you're banned from a forum, you can re-register with a seemingly new address. However, it would be easy to incorporate code into registration forms that checks for an email address containing @gmail.com and +, and then strips the + and everything after it up to the @, recreating the original address. I've noticed a few issues. Emails from other Gmail members are missing a lot of header information, including X-Originating-IP. However, emails frm Gmail members sent to non-Gmail accounts have all the headers. Also, email with HTML in it seems to take a long time to arrive, long time meaning three hours in some cases. Attachments are limited to 10MB, so you can forget about sending warez. In conclusion, Gmail is pretty cool, but I'm not about to rely on it for anything serious. Thanks to Deadman for inviting me. I do not have any invites right now, and nobody really knows how they're distributed. Try #gmail on EFnet, that's how I got mine.
Gmail FAQ
Rash is a very good bash.org clone, currently in use at qwnts.luniticfringe.net.
I saw Dodgeball the other day. It was okay, but I wouldn't bother seeing it again.
"Charlie the Chainsaw wants to play!"
Also, Coca Cola C2 tastes awful.
This is going to be the most insane movie ever. Although this may already be the most insane movie ever.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is much, much better than the movie. Things actually happen. I recommend you see it. XDCC works well, although my hard drive space is now dangerously low.
Instead of putting a bunch of quotes here, I'll just direct you to this thread.
And now, a rant by mousse:
"Now-a-days the pizza delivery is faster getting to your house then the pigs are! My brother is fucking insane, so I locked him out my familys house. He went crazy and started screaming and shit then he called the police. It took the officer about 20-30 minutes to get to my house. The "officer" that showed up was as inane as they come. Holy shit he threatened not to let me off easy the next time I go over the speed limit or drive through a red light! I told him I didn't have a drivers liscense and he then threatened to not let me off easy the next time I break a minor law. Wow even officers think some laws are more important then others. That really sucks."
Geris wanted to be on an update, so here's his story:
Me, my shrink and some drugs.
As of now I off the happy numb pills also know as prozac. Now we all know what prozac is right? Its a powerfull anti-depressent. Now you are maybe asking yourself why did he have to take that shit. Well here is the very fucked up story.... It startedin Febuary of 2003 when I was 12 and in 6th grade. My Mom got this idea to take me to some place where they test children for mental disabilities such as ADD. Now I have a theory she got this idea from a TV news channel. Another bullshit story about how 1 in 3 children have ADD. Gez I hate TV mostly because of the greedy companies and the shitty news.[Thank the lord for the internet] Anyway I went to this place and took this test which took me 2 days to complete. now jump to a month latter, mom has just got the mail from the mail-box and I was sitting at the table doing some math homework when I heard her say "Oh my gosh, my baby has ADD." Now at this I though I was going to cry. The way my mom said it made me think it was serious and I was fucked up for life. Then seh told me it was just a small ammount[Do they messure ADD in grams or mililitter?] of ADD and I have to go see a Doctor about getting some meds. Ok now we go to the doctor some weeks latter and he looks at my test records and says "Hmmm lets give you an non-stimulant treatment. I think stratera would be good." Now for those who don't know ritilan is a stimulant and is jus ta a form of speed.[I'm not shitting you ritalin is speed] So, this doctor didn't like ritalin so he gave me stratera. Now jump to Januray 2004, After being on stratera for awile my mood became boring and mellow. I was tired all the time, didn't try to talk to people because I was trying to fucking pay attention in class and when I was bored in school I would put my head down and try to sleep or read a book. But no the teacher got all fucking worried and though I was depressed. So they called a meeting with my parents. After the meeting my Mom wanted me to see a shrink. She said that there was nothing wrong with me and they just wanted for the shrink to check me out. Bullshit! If they though I didn't have anything wrong with me then why did I have to see a god damn shrink! Gez I'm not that fucking stupid. Ok so I answered all of her bullshit questions and left promptly with my mom. Now week later my mom meets with the shrink again without me. She comes back and tellsm e to take this small white pill from now on and that I am off stratera. Well for the first few weeks a threw the pills away and I started to try tot alk to dicks a at school that I didn't like, stoped reading in class and didn't try to sleep. After awile my mom found the pills and started to make me take them. Now remeber I don't know what the hell I am taking beacuse they never told me what it is. Now jump to the first week of June. Ahh summer, no more school work, no more jocks or dicks. pure bliss. So that weekend my dad asked me if he wanted to see a movie that we both wanted to see, "Super Size Me". After the movie[It was a really good movie] in the car on the way home I asked my dad for some reason what were the little white pills mom makes me take. The answer he gave me shocked me and pissed the hell out of me. PROZAC!! Of all the things of in the world I was taking a fucking anti-depressent. Now the next day I asked my mom what were the little pills that she making me take. She gave me the name Zycolaft[Something like that] Now the answer she gave me was 100% true. She gave me the generic name not the brand name. So the week on June 17 I went to the shrink again. More bullshit questions, more "Do you feel depressed or sad." shit. After a bit I asked while my mom was in the room "What is the name of the pills I am taking?" The shrink gave my mom a look of concern and said the generic name. I replied "Isn't that Prozac?" As teh 1337 would say "qwned!" "Yes it is" she repiled. Now my mom was looking all worried that I had caught her half-lie. Next I said "I do not want to take this any more if that is fine."Bot my mom and the shrink agreed to my request. Today is June 18, 2004 I have now stoped taking Prozac, the shrink tells me it will take 3 weeks for it all to be out of my system but I feel better already. It feels great knowing that my parents[Mostly my mom] trying to control my feelings with drugs. I feel so much better. So in the end I guess this story has a happy ending.
~Geris
So, today Jason and I went to the local GameStop to look for a copy of the Ronald McDonald game. While there, I noticed something odd. Scattered amongst the many cartridges, there was a lone copy of Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend. I wasn't offended, it just seemed out of place. Sonic the Hedgehog, WWF Raw... tentacle rape. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over. Maybe they're shifting their target demographic or something. Maybe someone just offered to resell it to them and they never realized what it was. Either way, they might want to keep the things labeled "WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN" seperate from everything else.
(And we didn't find the Ronald McDonald game. However, thanks to RealmMaster, we got the ROM.)
