4chan Has Been DDOSed 710
An anonymous reader writes "According to the 4chan status page all of the 4chan boards have been DDOSed and are down."
"If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak." -- Phil Wayne
Oblig (Score:4, Insightful)
And nothing of value was lost...
4chan might be down forever. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:YOU FOOLS!!! (Score:5, Insightful)
They fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The best known is "never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against 4chan when LOL's are on the line!"
Re:First post (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:As apprehended.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Civil disobedience does nothing if it's not illegal. Every protest Gandhi did was illegal too. Can't play by the Man's rules if you want to beat him. ;)
Re:Who submitted the story? (Score:4, Insightful)
Even better - the "related story" at the bottom says -
Submission: 4chan has been DDOSed by Anonymous Coward
Re:First post (Score:0, Insightful)
Big fucking deal.
It doesn't mean you're important or anything, just that you found this place before a lot of other people.
Re:Aw thanks... (Score:5, Insightful)
Wait commodore64, I am a Christian, and I don't think a person should not have the freedom to smoke cannabis or be naked in his own home. Remember, many people call themselves something they are not with the intention of poisoning the well.
Re:First post (Score:5, Insightful)
You mean the days of Something Awful, before it went paywall.
Re:As apprehended.... (Score:4, Insightful)
I agree with a lot you say, but you cannot make wrong right by doing wrong yourself.
We once hired a former top soccer referee as a guest speaker for an IT conference we organized. At first i was baffled: what could a referee tell us about IT decisions. Then he brought up this: He was a referee in an important match. There was a critical situation (penalty or not) and he decided against it. During the half time break he could see the TV input and learned he had been wrong. During the second half a similar situation appeared, but he thought it to be no penalty. He now could make up his mistake by giving the wrongly denied penalty now. In his speech explained, why this would have been wrong on several levels. In short: He would have rewarded irregular behaviour of the striker (by playing the dying swan) and put pressure on other referees to try also to make up for their mistakes. In the end, the balance would never be perfectly equalised. There would always be more compensation required.
CU, Martin
Re:Aw thanks... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Aw thanks... (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure they can. My girlfriend was married to a guy for 14 years before she met me. ^.~ (turned out he was actually a she, and was into guys, though, lol....) Her kids have no problem calling me Mom, either.... Oh the joys of kow-towing to the religious moral authority, and the pain it causes in peoples' lives... my partner and her ex are both much happier now.
I do feel the need to point out, though, that this statement is wrong, and probably somewhat offensive. There's absolutely nothing wrong with choosing to adhere to a faith, or to a religion, as long as you recognize that as a choice. And yes, I do feel that there's a distinction to be made between a Faith and a Religion. The question isn't so much what you believe, it's how you apply those beliefs, and how you treat others. A huge number of people experience a deeply spiritual and religious life without ever foisting those beliefs on those around them. As far as I'm concerned, there is exactly one rule that actually matters: do no harm. As long as you follow that rule, you have a right to believe whatever sits well with your conscience.
(and I should point out that I consider evangelism to be doing harm... if Yahweh wants to send me the word, there's a perfectly good bush in the back yard for him to set on fire... though I'm equally bothered by evangelical atheists, too. Live and let live, yeah?)
Re:As apprehended.... (Score:5, Insightful)
If Gandhi would live today, do you think he would DDOS Mastercard? Even if you are angry you should be able to see, that you have thousand of legal actions available that he never had. They are bothersome, yes, and they will soak up your energy & time and you have to leave snail shell of anonymity, but they are available. Painting DDOS in civil disobedience colours is just a sluggards excuse. One thing Gandhi always did, when he was breaking the law: Saying here i am, i did this, come and arrest me (and they often did). If the DDOS'ler would do that too, we could start talking about civil disobedience. Right at the moment, they are just a lynch mob.
If you want to portest: come, do it, bear the consequences. I have quite some repect for Julian Assange (even if i do not agree in a lot of things with him). He knew what he did and what consequences it might bear. Those DDOS mob is just a disgrace to the IT.
CU, Martin
Re:YOU FOOLS!!! (Score:3, Insightful)
Mod +1 Inconceivable.
Re:First post (Score:3, Insightful)
"Name one time government did any good"
When it stepped in and established the Social Security system to provide some financial security to our parents and grand parents and great grandparents so they did not starve to death out in the cold. Kind of like a reaction to a sever economic depression. You would think we would learn from history.
As they tell us the only problem with Social Security is that it is not privatized, that means that none of them are making a dime off that business. They see a gold mine and they are after it like flies to fat. (flies actually prefer fat to honey).
When the government stepped in and protected children wanting to go to public school from harm in the deep south, where lynching had been common practice.
During any national disaster when they step up with help and aid.
When our country was attacked, protecting.
When our poor and old need medical care. Rather than letting them die like stray dogs, because they have no money. In the anti-government world, people only have dignity if they have money, people are only valuable if they have the cash. The rest can eat dog food.
I think they call that compasionate conservatism, or enlighted self interest. Well as usual they get it have right, and its the later half alway. The first half is the marketing spin to make you think they have a heart.
Re:Oblig (Score:5, Insightful)
Nobody values sewers until they stop working.