imax2268
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:19 PM
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What...no more pic's on the sig line...? |
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I just noticed that...?
What's up mods...to over the top on some or what...?
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PunkinPi
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:23 PM
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1. no we had a freeper invasion today |
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Edited on Mon Dec-15-03 05:23 PM by PunkinPi
thanks to rush limpnuts.
edit: you will also notice there are no avatars as well.
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supernova
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:23 PM
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and server overload due to the Freeper invasion today.
Avatars and sigs will probably be back up sometime this evening.
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La_Serpiente
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:23 PM
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traffic has been up since the Sadaam caputre. The servers have not been functioning well.
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Cooley Hurd
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:25 PM
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4. The fascists at FreeRepublic (DOS) attacked DU today... |
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As you know, they're not keen on civil rights, the 1st amendment, etc, unless it's their OWN rights being trampled...
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Paragon
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:28 PM
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6. A server overload is not necessarily a DOS attack |
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Just a lot of freepers all trying to get on the site at once, is all.
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Cooley Hurd
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:36 PM
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10. But if it's coordinated via FR website and they crow about... |
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..."bringing down DU," then doesn't it show intent and doesn't that trip the RICO statute?
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Paragon
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:39 PM
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Smaller websites that fark.com links to get crushed all the time under the increased pressure.
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Cooley Hurd
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:44 PM
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14. But calling for, and bragging about, "bringing down DU..." |
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Edited on Mon Dec-15-03 05:47 PM by alg0912
shows intent to infringe on our civil rights and to curtail on our free speech. If they visit DU all at once with the "stated intention" of bringing down the site, then that's no different than cutting Rush's radio feed cable during a broadcast (which DOES run afoul of FCC regs - this I know because a rival radio station did it to Howard Stern about 10 years ago and they were prosecuted for it).
If people were asked to log onto fark.com all at once for the expressed purpose of crippling its server, that's different than if it went down because of random traffic hits...
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:28 PM
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7. Well how about if we do it to them? |
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Bartcop has the right idea. Fight fire with fire. I think we need to go in there and raise hell.
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Cooley Hurd
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:39 PM
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12. it's against DU rules to call for such action... |
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I dig where you're coming from, but I have no interest in infringing on their civil rights(by DOS attack on the FR website). They have a right to their crappy little website from which to spew hate and ignorance...
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imax2268
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:28 PM
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5. What is DU admin going to do... |
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let's punish these pukes...I read the link where they are gloating about it...
Can DU admins take legal action...?
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:29 PM
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:30 PM
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and they call us names...hmmmmmmmmm...
aren't they a bunch of nice people...
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Mon Dec-15-03 05:40 PM
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13. Oh, so that's why. Over the weekend Clear Channel mentioned DU |
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stating that we were whining (per another poster). I think the right wingers are afraid.
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