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- dillyhoo, on 11/28/2007, -1/+166And yet nobody even considers the possibility that Al just wants to help us out with our erectile dysfunction.
- Remmiz, on 11/28/2007, -21/+128The creator of the internet was hacked? How can this be?
- shaun1018, on 11/28/2007, -5/+87Its an inconvenient truth, but you have a small penis. Buy Viagra! aXgt29c 900i
- masterm1nd, on 11/28/2007, -14/+67Global warming did it.
- stickyhoney, on 11/28/2007, -1/+48Interesting how none of these sites credit the original author who wrote about the story weeks ago:
http://www.earnersblog.com/wordpress-hacked/ - l00s3r, on 11/28/2007, -3/+49The hacker's IP address was 158.35.238.9
- borninda818, on 11/28/2007, -8/+51NO! Something this diabolical can only be the work of MANBEARPIG.
- bzaks, on 11/28/2007, -0/+28OrgName: Exxon Mobil Corporation
OrgID: EMC-55
Address: 5959 Las Colinas Blvd.
City: Irving
StateProv: TX
PostalCode: 75039
Country: US
NetRange: 158.35.0.0 - 158.35.255.255
CIDR: 158.35.0.0/16
NetName: NETXOM-158-35-0-0
NetHandle: NET-158-35-0-0-1
Parent: NET-158-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Assignment
NameServer: PEGASUS.MOBIL.COM
NameServer: PEGASUS2.MOBIL.COM
Comment:
RegDate: 1992-02-07
Updated: 2003-01-13
OrgTechHandle: ROLEA9-ARIN
OrgTechName: Role Account
OrgTechPhone: +1-713-656-1548
OrgTechEmail: Internet-Technical@exxonmobil.com
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2007-11-27 19:10 - DJafrodijiak, on 11/28/2007, -16/+35OMFGZ... it's... MANBEARPIG!!
I'M TOTALLY SERIAL YOU GUYZZZ!!! - Sniperclops, on 11/28/2007, -1/+17Well we all know computers work because of al-gore-rythyms
- yomamaisfat, on 11/28/2007, -1/+15It would have been funnier if it linked to Exxon Mobil.
- victorycig, on 11/28/2007, -1/+15No, that was Bob Dole.
- Haecceity, on 11/28/2007, -2/+13Dwight D. Eisenhower created the interstate system. You think that means he claimed to have "invented" roads?
- profJohn, on 11/28/2007, -0/+10Dugg for being worth the whois to get the joke.
- thatcrazycommie, on 11/28/2007, -3/+11Uh, no, it means he thinks he introduced the High Performance Computing and Communication Act, a very important piece of legislation without which the expansion of the internet would have been severely limited. A quote from some of the actual inventors of the internet:
"[A]s the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time. Last year the Vice President made a straightforward statement on his role. He said: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet." We don't think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he "invented" the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore's initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet. The fact of the matter is that Gore was talking about and promoting the Internet long before most people were listening. We feel it is timely to offer our perspective. As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship. Though easily forgotten, now, at the time this was an unproven and controversial concept."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore%27s_contribut ... - mikehill33, on 11/28/2007, -1/+9link to screen shot or no digg!
- Subvexer, on 11/28/2007, -4/+12Ah, finally conclusive proof that he also invented spam.
- TheSolomon, on 11/28/2007, -1/+9A drop in the bucket compared to the ecological ass raping for which the oil companies are responsible.
- andshewas, on 11/28/2007, -5/+12...which in essence means he thinks he created the internet. What are you trying to prove?
- Godlike, on 11/28/2007, -1/+8It's a shame, you sound like you are trying very hard to pay attention and understand the world around you... I would really, really recommend that you try to learn some spelling and grammar, and that's not intended to be insulting but I think that it would really do you a lot of good. "Fallowing" and poor structure are getting you buried here, most people probably just stopped reading and hit bury. I mean, not that I am probably doing very well at 3:30 A.M. but "fallowing?"
Good luck! - Skanadian, on 11/28/2007, -1/+7That was ***** genius.
- mraustin1337, on 11/28/2007, -2/+8Pics or it didn't happen.
- Haecceity, on 11/28/2007, -2/+7Let me spell it out. Global warming = resource instability = international conflict.
- perandre, on 11/28/2007, -2/+7Just talked to a guy on the company that hosts my joomla site: MANY sites have been hacked the past few days, and different techniques have been used. If the mysql password was known, hackers would insert links into the db. If the config-file was writable, they would mess with it. If files were writable, the links would be inserted into a new div. And the last one (which killed my site): If you run php4, some files will need to have www as owner = bad.
- lukasmach, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6No, it means he was one of the people who were involved in creating the Internet.
- perandre, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5Not just wordpress sites; lots of well secured joomla sites have been hacked by these guys, too (including mine). Anyone know how it was done?
- scottc, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4I don't know about WP, but Joomla sites are usually hacked through insecure extensions.
- Orion682, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4He signed and argued in favor of a few pieces of paper that got those techs PAID. You think the internet cost nothing to develop and research? without the funding that Gore fought for, it likely would not exist today, or at the very least, not have been invented for many more years. Additionally, he was instrumental in moving it from a purely military project to an open and public system accessible the world over.
- ICSU, on 11/28/2007, -3/+7But he is in fact one of the persons who we can thank for the widespread use of the Internet today.
- kryogenix, on 11/28/2007, -3/+7This is clearly part of the vast right wing conspiracy and their connections to big pharma.
- zenmasher, on 11/28/2007, -1/+5oh...that silly malcor....when will he ever stop?
- ICSU, on 11/28/2007, -1/+4You mean from the billion subsidies?
- inactive, on 11/28/2007, -1/+4***** NEO CONS. (jk, obviously lol)
- johnnick, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3@andshewas - Actually, the claims in the quote above are by the techs and scientists who were working on ARPANET and other pre-Internet networks. They are giving credit to Gore for what he did in terms of creating interest and supporting (ie getting funding authorized) for the work they did. Your argument is similar to saying that Eisenhower deserves no credit for the interstate highway system, even though he wasn't involved in designing or building any of the roads. And Eisenhower even got the whole system named after him (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_highway_sy ...
- OssianHanning, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3"Cyber scammers have been using this technique for months now, packing hacked Web sites with links to their products in hopes of bumping up their rankings on search engines such as Google and Ask.com."
MONTHS? plus-minus a decade
and I don't really get how ask.com snuck in there... Yahoo should have been one of those two. The most spam-infested search engine of them all at today's date. - snotrokit, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2rat bastards hit one of my sites too. They hammered at all of them for a long long time. Found some rather nasty java script neatly slipped in as well.
- UtuOnYou, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2Oh I get it! You are saying that I'm paranoid for thinking there are a bunch of people out there who are diametrically opposed to my value system and seek to gain power using various methods.
You're right! I'm just silly that way!
You understand what "diametrically" means right? - Orion682, on 11/28/2007, -0/+2And I'm sure that Blackwater pays more taxes than I do... a lot more. The question is impact and scale. You can't compare a single individual's monetary contributions to that over a global, mulitnational corporation that also happens to be one of the world's largest companies.
You can compare impact though. Al Gore is one of the reasons there's pressure on Exxon to invest in alternative energies in the first place, and he has helped negotiate with foreign leaders to cut down their nation's emissions. - Dakk, on 11/28/2007, -10/+12Debunked:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp - Haecceity, on 11/28/2007, -1/+2Is that the best you can come up with? How do you know he was bragging? How do you know he wasn't modestly or matter-of-factly stating something that was, after all, the truth?
- Haecceity, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Have you heard of Vint Cerf? He said "Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development." Google it and weep.
- Super6, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1And if erections last longer than 4 hours... you're welcome
- rarson, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1See l00s3r's comment above...
- batmant, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Little known fact...Al invented hacking. Tsk tsk, the irony.
PS - Get off your ass and RUN AL...RUNNNN - Atomic1fire, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1If only he had pressure on his humble abode
- bjs3171, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1you mean people didn't wanna buy drugs from emails selling dugs within porn story gibberish? weird.
- krahzee, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Someone missed an opportunity for some classic humor here. If you are going to hack his site, put up something funny like a badly photoshopped image of Al driving an original Hummer waving a pistol in the air with a right to life bumper stick on the back.
- scottc, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1To whoever dugg my comment down: can you state your reason? It's true that the file ownership problem can be easily solved. We host hundreds of Joomla installations on both php4 and php5 servers and none of them need the file ownership set to www. perandre may have a cheap host who doesn't have the server power to run PHP as CGI (phpsuexec).
- Atomic1fire, on 12/04/2007, -0/+1It was a joke on the Penguin Protector
Dont take digg seriously - WhipTail, on 11/28/2007, -8/+9Excelsior!
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