Journal FortKnox's Journal: KoC: Success! 14
Pissed them off too much. They are -all- gone. They all deleted. That's the last time they fsck with us :-D
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
Who are "they"? (Score:1)
Careful (Score:2)
Heh (Score:1)
woot (Score:2)
Re:woot (Score:1)
Re:woot (Score:2)
Actually, I haven't been able to get on to KoC for the last 30 min, which kind of sucks because I was waiting for the cash from this turn to repair stuff. Bah.
Re:woot (Score:1)
Same here. I had a good 100k in the bank and then the site goes down. What bugs me is that I have to go to sleep now, so when I wake up I'm gonna have a good 300k (more if it "jumps" and gives out more turns than it should, which it has been known to do) for some fool to grab.
I hope my defence holds...
Re:woot (Score:2)
WTF!?!?!? (Score:2)
I wonder if they were cheating (Score:2)
In any case it is too bad we can't contact them to taunt them. I only got to smack Orifister once, but it was a good smack. Maybe they were deleted for having offensice names?
Off-topic but KoC-related (Score:1)
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Re:Off-topic but KoC-related (Score:1)
There's an announcement [giveupalready.com] on the forums which tells you how to report it.
Speaking of spyware, I was over at my parents' house playing KoC on my dad's Windows XP box, when I noticed that certain words on the KoC site were highlighted (usually the words "page", "advertising", "beta", "school", etc.). Ads would pop up when I moved the mouse over them. I wondered if I managed to infect my dad's computer with something, but every anti-spyware/adware program I tried couldn't find anything. Anyway, Windows is no
Re:Off-topic but KoC-related (Score:1)
Thanks for the link. I kept reloading the page to get the bad silent installer, and I'm pretty sure it was TheaterMax. I'm not seeing that ad anymore, so I guess someone else reported it through email. Damn annoying but at least it gave me an incentive to try out Mozilla.
As far as the under-line adware... I'm almost certain that it's "eZula". The only site I have found that it works on is KoC (just like you). Heh, at first I thought it was just some incarnation of MS's "smart tags". Anyway, I had to