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Junkenstein

#3315
April 30, 2014, 08:51:37 AM
This smells. Not sure what of, but it's nothing pleasant:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27203371

QuoteOther edits made by government machines included:

Continue reading the main story
How edits were uncovered

Liverpool Echo front page
Wikipedia allows any web user to make changes to its pages, but this leaves a trace through the user's internet protocol (IP) address
Changes are monitored by Wikipedia, but internet trolls have been known to post insulting material, which is usually swiftly removed
Liverpool Echo reporter Oliver Duggan discovered that insults posted on the website's Hillsborough Disaster page had been made using computers within the government's internal intranet
He confirmed this after referring to a list of 34 IP addresses used by the government released by former minister Angela Eagle in 2008
The BBC analysed two of the addresses - 195.92.40.49 and 62.25.106.209 - to find the edits contained in this article
In the entry for the London bombings, links to websites detailing popular conspiracy theories were added.
The article for former prime minister Tony Blair was deleted in its entirety and replaced with the words "he should be assassinated".
Homophobic insults were added to the entry for newspaper columnist Richard Littlejohn.
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who has worked for the government on healthy eating initiatives, also had homophobic insults added to his page.

QuoteGovernment machines were also used to vandalise, or "troll", on several pages, including:

In the entry about indie band The Libertines: "[T]he more astute critics correctly identify the band as scum", and added a remark about lead singer Pete Doherty's drug use.
Comments about footballer Wayne Rooney that said he was "currently knocking off 'queen chav' Coleen McGlochlin".
The deletion of the entire post for Irish politician Christopher Byrne, replacing it with simply "is a sexy beast".
Changing the entry for BBC presenter Peter Levy to list "Adolf Hitler" as an ex-partner.

There appears to be little rhyme or reason to this and my first reaction was "bored work experience kid". Considering it's been ongoing since 2008 that seems unlikely. It seems reasonable to assume it's more than one person (Why attack Tony Blair and not Cherie?) which could make this most amusing indeed.

Taking bets, will some "social media managers" take the blame or will an actual UK politicians turn out to be responsible? SPIN THE WHEEL.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

P3nT4gR4m

#3316
April 30, 2014, 09:02:27 AM
HIMEOBS - We're in your governments, fucking up yuor wikis  :evil:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

The Good Reverend Roger

#3317
April 30, 2014, 02:17:35 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 30, 2014, 08:39:13 AM
Just caught the above, will look into that later on. Most interesting.

About as unrelated as you can be from that however:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-27210992

QuoteThe residents of a town on Canada's Newfoundland island fear a blue whale carcass that washed up on its boardwalk last week could explode at any time.

The 25m (81ft) whale on Trout River's rocky beach is one of several believed to have died in heavy ice weeks ago.

Town Clerk Emily Butler says the body is bloated with methane gas caused by decomposition and will soon reek, regardless of whether it explodes.

QuoteLast year a sperm whale carcass that washed up on the Faroe Islands exploded as a biologist attempted to dissect it.

I can't decide whether it's a great or terrible epitaph - "Killed by exploding whale"

Oregon did this shit years ago. Everything else has been a cheap copy.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Junkenstein

#3318
April 30, 2014, 02:37:22 PM
Was that the dynamite incident? Because that was humanity at it's finest there.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#3319
April 30, 2014, 02:57:59 PM
That's my state for you.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

The Good Reverend Roger

#3320
April 30, 2014, 03:00:50 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 30, 2014, 02:37:22 PM
Was that the dynamite incident? Because that was humanity at it's finest there.

That's humanity at its second-finest, but yeah.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Junkenstein

#3321
April 30, 2014, 03:05:53 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on April 30, 2014, 03:00:50 PM
Quote from: Junkenstein on April 30, 2014, 02:37:22 PM
Was that the dynamite incident? Because that was humanity at it's finest there.

That's humanity at its second-finest, but yeah.

I'll bite, what beats it?
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

The Good Reverend Roger

#3322
April 30, 2014, 03:29:53 PM
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Junkenstein

#3323
May 01, 2014, 07:26:13 AM
Totally worth it for $200. Realistically, quite lucky that it wasn't considerably worse.

This:
QuoteThe indictment stems from an incident in August 2009 where chlorine tablets mixed with other chemicals were set on fire outside the home of Myles and Karen Levine.

just shows you what any particularly motivated loon can do when inclined. Which makes the whole terrorism thing even funnier in some regards. You can inflict more damage from a trip to Tesco or Wall Mart than you probably could from the nearest army base.

They would sell you it all in spades, no questions asked and it would be quantities easily capable of doing significant damage. 

Other news:
UK crime "falls 15%"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27138921
Yet apparently the police don't record "a fifth" (I call that 20%. You know, to keep the numbers in headlines consistent) of crime
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27226110
So what I suspect here is that no-one knows how much crime is actually going on.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Junkenstein

#3324
May 01, 2014, 07:29:49 AM
Hey Cain:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-27232731
QuoteSinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has been arrested by Northern Ireland police in connection with the 1972 murder of Jean McConville.

He presented himself to police on Wednesday evening and was arrested.

Speaking before his arrest, Mr Adams said he was "innocent of any part" in the murder.

Mrs McConville, a 37-year-old widow and mother-of-10, was abducted from her flat in the Divis area of west Belfast and shot by the IRA.

Got to be worth watching here. Intrigue abounds.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

P3nT4gR4m

#3325
May 01, 2014, 07:51:55 AM
Quote from: Junkenstein on May 01, 2014, 07:26:13 AM
Totally worth it for $200. Realistically, quite lucky that it wasn't considerably worse.

This:
QuoteThe indictment stems from an incident in August 2009 where chlorine tablets mixed with other chemicals were set on fire outside the home of Myles and Karen Levine.

just shows you what any particularly motivated loon can do when inclined. Which makes the whole terrorism thing even funnier in some regards. You can inflict more damage from a trip to Tesco or Wall Mart than you probably could from the nearest army base.

They would sell you it all in spades, no questions asked and it would be quantities easily capable of doing significant damage. 

Other news:
UK crime "falls 15%"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27138921
Yet apparently the police don't record "a fifth" (I call that 20%. You know, to keep the numbers in headlines consistent) of crime
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27226110
So what I suspect here is that no-one knows how much crime is actually going on.

If the police are aware of it, it isn't crime. It's idiots  :wink:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Junkenstein

#3326
May 01, 2014, 08:11:38 AM
That's probably a better way to read the stories.

"Idiocy in the UK drops by 15%"

"Police fail to report 20% of stupid things"
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Junkenstein

#3327
May 01, 2014, 10:18:12 AM Last Edit: May 01, 2014, 10:23:49 AM by Junkenstein
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27225422

Paxman quitting newsnight. Can't blame the man, but it's a shame as there's very few that interview people properly nowadays. Link above is basically a "best bits", misses out some good ones but you'll get the idea if you've never heard of him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwlsd8RAoqI
(Amusement starts around 1:45)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q96elyZaxq8
(EDL Interview. Stunning)
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Junkenstein

#3328
May 06, 2014, 09:25:20 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27283383

QuoteNigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has threatened to "sell" the hundreds of schoolgirls it abducted three weeks ago.

Militant leader Abubakar Shekau sent a video obtained by the AFP news agency, in which he said for the first time that his group had taken the girls.

About 230 girls are still believed to be missing, prompting widespread criticism of the Nigerian government.

Fucking hell. Missed this completely. Guess hundreds of kids being abducted isn't really an issue at all unless they're white.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

Cain

#3329
May 06, 2014, 09:29:03 AM
It's been neglected by a lot of the media.

Except Nick Cohen, who has been using it as a bludgeon to attack everyone he sees as too accomodating of Islamist radicals ("everyone else") and people who mocked him about the Iraq War ("everyone").

Because referring to a kidnapping as an abduction rather than slavery shows covert support for the House of Saud.  Or something.
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