Ask TOMBOT

That's not even a question!

All right, are you as good at Whack-A-Mole in real life as you are on here?

I am not the only moderator.

e.g. if you let me play whack-a-mole with a team of five other dudes who each have their own mallet then yeah, I fucking rule

I'm not being snarky. Seeing a thread that ends with a fuck you and then watching it disappear into smoke legitimately makes me laugh on a boring Friday afternoon.

if you let me play whack-a-mole with a team of five other dudes who each have their own mallet

I had no idea you knew LJ IRL.

: - o

;-D

http://blog.terrises.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/jerkoff.gif

that threw me off for a second before I realized that I wasn't looking at the banjo thread.

http://www.doxpara.com/?p=1176

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1520

oh teh lol

SQL injection - lol or :-( ?

kind of lol but mostly sad

TOMBOT - Terry Childs, evil villain or misunderstood hero?

p.s. this is a do my homework for me question

ALBERTO TOMBOT,

Would you accept FACEBOOK friend invite from http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v230/1384/59/s1245246539_7707.jpg?

Love,

Shasta

Byron,

Neither.
Arrogant prick.

Steve,

I don't do facebook, so no.

ps to bnw, if I had to expound, I would say "evil villain" gives way too much credit to his actions, which were basically expensive vandalism, and "misunderstood hero" gives way too much credit to his superiors, who themselves got nothing on the folks at NASA/Morton Thiokol who sent the Challenger up

yeah I don't buy the network savior crap either, it'd be like a doctor stashing a patient's charts because only he could care for him properly.

one of my friend's had his main network admin go similarly wacko post quitting where he kept emailing the company saying that their website (which he set up) wasn't secure and that he wouldn't be held responsible if it was hacked.

that sounds like nobody we know

You are probably more aware of your options than I am so I'm just going to tell you that you're probably being risk averse or avoiding a difficult decision. My best decisions, in hindsight, have all been made during times of high stress and tension in my life, because those are the times when you realize making a strong commitment is the only way to save you from yourself. No reward without risk.

This is actually pretty good. Well done.

I'm really tempted to post about a developer going nuts, but I guess I should honor my NDA.

yeah don't be Ptacek. did you read the comments on the matasano post?

http://www.matasano.com/log/1105/regarding-the-post-on-chargen-earlier-today/

Botman - do you think cloud-computing is the end of most internal IT? (more lol homework)

much like e-mail eradicated piles of paper lying everywhere all over the office, yes

1. the government and the military cannot do software-as-a-service/cloud model
2. big publicly-owned corporations also for the most part cannot do it either
3. schools, maybe, and smaller private businesses, sure, but that's like saying "In 2003, eBay and Yahoo! stores effectively ended the need for windshield repairmen, boat engine refurbishers and luxury pet goods dealers all over the world to pay for their own webhosting"

yeah, at first I thought it meant office drones on virtual desktops connected to servers in some bunker in India. Our prof seems very keen on the idea that companies sharing clouds can share data and all benefit. seems to me like companies had maybe lesser and slower means of sharing data before clouds and weren't really doing so...

wikipedia page on cloud computing has the best informational graphic ever

omg <3

There's some article somewhere about the Canadian gov policy mandating no hosted IT services located in the United States because of all the post-911 abuses of government power.

http://socialvpn.wordpress.com/

does this make you reconsider facebook? y/n

catsup dude,

that is the stupidest idea I have ever seen in my entire life.
I would think that the person who came up with it must be schizotypal.

tombot, would you ban someone who calls a mentally ill ILXor a "fucking insane homeless bonkers bag lady archetype"?

curtis,

is that the best you can come up with?

Tom, how will you take advantage of the congressional recess?

tom,

I'm not interested in zinging you, I just think you're a little trigger happy w/the ban button when someone ticks you off. even though what cankles said on that thread was shitty it's not worth permabanning him over - he has not been a perpetual nuisance, and other people have said worse stuff on that thread and on ILX in general.

I mean maybe I'm making too big a deal out of this, I don't get to see the ILXor-analysis that takes place on the Moderator Discussion Forum

tom,

I am very glad you did what you did because shit on that thread was out of hand and basically not right.

but it wasn't just cankles

not interested

Tom,

Can you second my nomination for Curt1s as next-in-line sitewide mod? He has both the feel for ILX and the genuine decency to make the right decision more or less every time.

let me be clear and say I DO NOT APPROVE of what was posted on that thread

Not trying to stir the pot; I'm sure you'd work very well together. It'd be like some awesome cop show.

xpost to me

I'm thinking at this point I'm closer to next in line for permaban :/

If that happens, I'm leaving too. Voluntarily.

(Now's your chance! Two young birds, one weighty stone!)

I say let them stay!!!

Take it to I Must Protest or I'll beat you all to death with my knees

Tom, how will you take advantage of the congressional recess?

By sneaking in my application for a GS-14 spot under their noses.

Tom,

What's yr boozeahol of choice?

lol at louis