Surazal's Journal: hm, nice to be back

Well, I reclaimed my slashdot account. Woo! I found that my first in a long time comment posted to an article concerning Congressmen fighting against OSS got moderated up to +5. Man, if this keeps up, I'll start feeling like a karma whore again.

It doesn't look like there was too much damage to the reputation of the "surazal" account on Slashdot as the result of it getting hacked. I fixed the password to something unrecognizable (before it was an easily guessed password... my bad!) and set my signature file to alert any readers of old comments posted over a 6-month period that any comments written by this account between October and April were not mine. Actually, I did not post anything in past year until a few days ago. Somehow, the l33t h4XX0r that got my account (I don't know who unfortunately), wasn't a complete asshat... a couple of comments got moderated down, but only a couple. Good thing hackers in general aren't really the intelligibly literate type. I knew a few in real life; I was not impressed. "Script kiddies" remains my favorite term for describing them. I don't care if that hacker is 45 years old. You're still a script kiddie. Get used to it, twerp. :)

Besides, I like my account ID.. who else can clain that they have a Slashdot account number of 729? I think new users have to live with a six-digit number nowadays. :) Gotta have some sort of geek-ish bragging rights, right? Hooyeah!