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A Pimp Named DaveR
09/04/09

In reply to Today's the Day for Tech Companies to Issue Hushed Apologies
I'm not usually a harsh person, but... AT&T, I'm really not effing interested in how hard it is to do the thing FOR WHICH YOU'RE CHARGING ME MONEY. Either do what you promise to do, or get out of the business and STFU.
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iplaudius
09/04/09

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AT&T iPhone data plan ($30) + unlimited voice ($100) + unlimited text ($20) + GPS nav. ($10) = $160/mo.

How is it even possible to have a pre-tax $160/mo. plan? $160? Really? And why pay that kind of money to a company that can’t provide the network to support the service? (A telcom monopoly, no less.)
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spikelike
09/04/09

@iplaudius: Add to that the fact AT&T is laying off like crazy, outsourcing heavily overseas, and raising the health insurance on those that remain? Really crappy stuff. And no, I'm not a CWA-er, just no love for how Ma Bell is doing things these days
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Mike Byhoff
09/04/09

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Seth is begging for a wedgie.
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NigelAstydameia
09/04/09

@Mikey-B: Seriously. Now we know where to focus our rage!
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limber
07/27/09

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I tried to explain 4chan to my boss one day -- he shrugged and tried to brush the whole idea off as "just a bunch of kids", so I went and got some of the tech team to back me up.

Once he had ten people in his office all telling him in deadly serious tones that 4chan was not a thing to mess with, he finally got the point.

I can just imagine that any and all nerds in the AT&T offices had the same conversation, but were overruled. I'm sorry that their lives are now going to suck.
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Nice Beaver
07/27/09

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I shed no tears for 4chan.
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Nice Beaver
07/27/09

@Nice Beaver: I'm a big homo who drinks his own pee.
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Nice Beaver
07/27/09

@Nice Beaver: Well, apparently some of the 4chan kids have hacked into my Gawker account.
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Nice Beaver
07/27/09

@Nice Beaver: No they haven't. I'm just a big, dumb pedophile who sniffs cat farts.
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Nice Beaver
07/27/09

@Nice Beaver: Again, I have to emphasize, I am not writing these comments.
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Nice Beaver
07/27/09

@Nice Beaver: Yes I am. First!!!!1!!1!!
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WitchfinderGeneral
07/27/09

In reply to AT&T: We Blocked 4Chan for Criminality, Not Offensiveness
Yes, 4chan was BEING ATTACKED by an Anontalk SYN flood. This generated a lot of ACK replies that the AT&T newfies must have misinterpreted as DDOS.

4chan is a place of good humor and family fun. As such, it has been under constant attack by the vile and criminal Anontalk, the same people responsible for the illegal content that occasionally crops up on 4chan.

Also, it is rumored that Anontalk is a front for Scientology in its role as a front for the much more nefarious Ebaumsworld.
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jacobestes
07/27/09

@WitchfinderGeneral: It's like, I can't tell if you're kidding? I don't know why I'm laughing.
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raincoaster
07/28/09

@jacobestes: I know why I'm laughing: at the picture of the kind of family that has fun together on 4chan. The phrase "Uncle Daddy" springs to mind.

Everyone knows it's those fucking Meerkats that are behind it.
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Iwillnotauditionforastar
07/30/09

@WitchfinderGeneral: Um, someone pullled a switcheroo on Sci guys, I think, last week. This next August first they may try a switcheroo on,um, someone I know, but they are ready for them.
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nathanst
07/27/09

In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
LOL 4chan has a couple of distinct groups that are into this sort of thing. There are a few talented haxorz (maybe 100? they don't really like questionnaires) and then thousands of me-too teenage/college bandwagoneers.

Basically the talented peeps have to orchestrate a plan and then herd the me-toos to achieve specific goals.

It's much more difficult than outsiders make it sound. Go teach high school or a 100 level class for more info. Fortunately AT&T made it easy for them by inviting collective hate but if the me-toos get too terroristy the feds might kill the fun.

Yeah, this will be interesting to watch.
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Jim Topoleski
07/27/09

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I have never, in my life heard of a more proper description for 4chan than "asshole of the internet."

I'm sure those guys not only agree, but wear that description like a badge of honor from my dealings with them at Otakon.
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07/27/09

@Jim Topoleski: Otakon is the asshole of real life, where internet people are just the dingleberries.

It isn't nice for pots to be calling kettles black, man.
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07/27/09

@▄█▀ █▬█ █ ▀█▀: ahhh I rest my case on them.
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skt.smth
07/27/09

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This should be interesting to see. AT&T is and has been, after all, the classic real-world antagonist of hackers for about as long as computer-to-computer communications has existed. If things go right, Bruce Sterling may be able to tack another chapter onto his brilliant non-fiction book, "The Hacker Crackdown."
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Xylo
07/27/09

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They (and others) were also the originators of the Anonymous campaign against Scientology, which started off as 4chan being pissed that $cientology was trying to censor the Tom-Cruise=crazy video.
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hilikusopus
07/27/09

@Xylo: That was terrifying and awesome at once.
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Must B. Nice
07/27/09

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4chan isn't really an elite group of uber-hackers. It's just a really large group of people, a good percentage of whom Know What They're Doing when it comes to computers. And they're fanatical.

To make a boxing analogy, this isn't like picking a fight with the professional champions of each weight class.

This is like picking a fight with every amateur boxing club in America, all their instructors, members, and sympathizers, at once.

Good luck with that.
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The Real JR
07/27/09

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I fear AT&T is going to go the way of Jukt Micronics.
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snugbug
07/27/09

@The Real JR: Methinks you're the Proxima Centauri of Gawker stars.. I'm readjusting my orbit to keep up with you.

PS: This reminds me--what kind of sane editor/reader could ever buy that "Jukt Micronics" is the actual name of an actual company?
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Nesbiteme
07/27/09

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To give you an idea of how awesomely powerful this segment of the hacker community is, in 2005 they stole the password to Dick Cheney’s Club Penguin account and started making indecent comments about Rock Hopper under Cheney’s profile Dark Penguin. Disney and the Secret Service tried in vain for six months to stop them but failed. Finally the gov. used CIA funds to pay these hackers off and to close down the account. .
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Albert Samuel
07/27/09

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Yeah... If these guy's are timing up to fuck up AT&T, I'm really sure you guys should not be calling them "A Bunch of Web-Nerds" since they'll track you down and lend you the web version on a sodomy and you'll end up in hiding and having to change all of the shit information, including phone numbers, ISP's(Irony) and maybe even credit cards. So I suggest you don't mess with the smart bunch of advanced hackers seeing as they can really f*ck up people's lives
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The Cajun Boy
07/27/09

@Albert Samuel: I don't really think the 4chaners give a fuck about being called web-nerds. They have much bigger fish to fry. Besides, I'm pulling for them to do something especially dastardly in this case.
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drunkexpatwriter
07/27/09

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Wow. So by tomorrow if you use AT&T for phone or Internet or anything you are fucked because AT&T will not be able to do anything.

I hope they do that Office Space thing where they empty their bank accounts.
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cotr
07/27/09

@drunkexpatwriter: only if they have a slow mo scene of them destroying a stupid ass 2wire modem.
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