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...if Iran blamed this recent plane crash on Terrorists? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Appears to be a bug in slashcode. I never enabled comments on my last journal entry and now I cannot enable them even though slashdot says I can. I would email whoever I'm supposed to email and let them know, but... its slashcode and i have better things to do with my time. Anyhow, please post all questions/replies/flames to my last journal here.

Previous journal entry: Ready for the flames...

I posted a reply to Searching for Botnet Command & Controls. In my post I noted my insider connection to the botnet world by implying I am part of the IN crowd, which I am. For what its worth, I have never owned a machine[1] nor run a botnet. Think of me as that good kid who never did any wrong but hung out with the wrong people as a kid. And if I could be a kid again, I would not change a thing. As far-fetched as this may sound, you learn to develop small efficient code. This may also explain my love for the demo scene...

Anyway, the purpose of this journal is to answer any off-topic questions related to the post. I will try to keep things as open as I can.

[1] - i did retaliate on a wanna-be hacker in a neighboring town who decided to pick my ex-girlfriend's computer to play a few pranks. it came to a quick end when i showed up at his front door two days after he hijacked my gf's computer. true story, no bs.. i couldn't make this up even if i tried

In my usual hot-tempered style, I responded to another troll. Damn. Oh well, this one is a first post and it's actually getting positive moderation. I put a note in my post to mod parent down, lets see how many moderators actually do their job. If they take the time to actually read the post and visit the page in question, they will see it is nothing more than an exploit of how IE handles vbscript. If they continue to read other posts on the topic they will see how suso is nothing more than a first post whore.

dknj vs suso

This person posted this message a full day after my discussion ended. The problem is, his post was completely irrelevant and offtopic from my post. If a moderater saw it, he would probably mark it as informative. Someone tracking the thread would see it's offtopic and mark it as such. Two things happen after this. The first being the user who sees the post is ontopic about the article and doesn't realize it doesn't follow where the thread is going and starts complaining that "the parent shouldn't be modded as offtopic". The second happens during metamoderation. Everyone sees the single message and are asked if they think the moderation was fair. Anyone not following the thread will think offtopic is wrong and mark it unfair. What happens? The moderater who moderated the message as offtopic now loses karma (or whatever it has been replaced with). To get around reading such stupid posts, I will now start browsing at a minimum of +4 since this fucked up site won't do anything to solve this problem.