Finally some humor on a day with such depressing news.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Derek Glidden wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, it's been mine as well. Some people in the past regularly never
> > posted anything concerning Linux, yet they were not un_sub_scribed, nor
> > were spoken to by the powers at be. I guess if you are a *friend* it is ok
> > and if you are not - you get a tongue lashing.
>
> Yes, that's exactly it. Because there's a secret underground conspiracy
> of SLUG "elite core members" that regularly conspire to squash the
> creativity of anyone else on this mailing list, and it has nothing to do
> with the fact that some off-topic messges posted are only off-topic and
> nobody much seems to mind, while others will tend to stir up high
> emotional states and are therefore asked to move to the politics list
> and that some people tends towards one direction or the other just by
> the nature of their personalities and not because of any ulterior
> motives.
>
> The truth is that ALL non-Linux related messages are in fact specially
> coded messages between members of this secret "unter-SLUG" group,
> designed to pass information on which non-core SLUG list member is going
> to be given the next "tongue lashing", generated by an
> ultra-sophisticated psychological AI/expert system (Linux-based of
> course) that analyses all traffic that comes through this list to see
> who would be most vulnerable to this type of subversion.
>
> Not only that, but this AI/expert system also employs modern electronic
> security and countermeasure technologies so that it has infiltrated the
> personal and work computers of everyone who has ever sent or received
> email from this list and has done a complete analysis of everyone's
> personality including their Myers-Briggs personality type and MMPI
> scores. It uses this information to determine what sort of SPAM to send
> to those people for maximum agitation, as all SPAM on the internet is in
> fact generated by this system and is designed to annoy people in
> specific psychological fashion to leave them emotionally vulnerable to
> unter-SLUG manipulation.
>
> This AI/expert system has not only infiltrated home and work PCs but
> anything involved with these individuals that contains a microchip. At
> random times it makes your VCRs stop recording your favorite shows,
> leaves your car headlights on, and turns the hot water heater off during
> showers. It makes long distance phone calls that it charges to your
> number, runs the battery down on your cellphone at times you most need
> it, and hangs up your modem 95% of the way through an hour-long
> download. It calls your mom and tells her you don't love her anymore,
> calls your boss and tells him you think he's a jerk, and calls the local
> convenience store and asks the person working the counter if their
> refrigerator is running. It makes your toaster burn your toast, your
> coffeepot make your coffee too weak, and tells your freezer to make your
> ice cream go all squishy instead of firm the way you like it.
>
> ALL of this is designed to weaken the wills of the people selected by
> this system so that the unter-SLUG can subvert them into willing zombies
> without their knowledge so that the unter-SLUG will eventually have a
> whole army of soulless zombies with which they can use to ... hey...
> who are you? How did you get in here? What are you doing with that
> taser? No, it was a joke, really! I'll send a retraction! I swear!
> I... ASDFHHFUYT*#$*&KA<SDCASD...
>
> NO CARRIER
>
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Brigitte wrote:
> >
> > > You will find that some people on this list can say anything they want,
> > > whether it pertains to Linux or not, and others are quickly snuffed out or
> > > ignored. Apparently there is a hierarchy of some sort, but personally I
> > > don't have the time or interest to even attempt to figure it out.
> > > If this offends anyone, so be it .. but that's been my experience.
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> $_='while(read+STDIN,$_,2048){$a=29;$b=73;$c=142;$t=255;@t=map
> {$_%16or$t^=$c^=($m=(11,10,116,100,11,122,20,100)[$_/16%8])&110;
> $t^=(72,@z=(64,72,$a^=12*($_%16-2?0:$m&17)),$b^=$_%64?12:0,@z)
> [$_%8]}(16..271);if((@a=unx"C*",$_)[20]&48){$h=5;$_=unxb24,join
> "",@b=map{xB8,unxb8,chr($_^$a[--$h+84])}@ARGV;s/...$/1$&/;$d=
> unxV,xb25,$_;$e=256|(ord$b[4])<<9|ord$b[3];$d=$d>>8^($f=$t&($d
> >>12^$d>>4^$d^$d/8))<<17,$e=$e>>8^($t&($g=($q=$e>>14&7^$e)^$q*
> 8^$q<<6))<<9,$_=$t[$_]^(($h>>=8)+=$f+(~$g&$t))for@a[128..$#a]}
> print+x"C*",@a}';s/x/pack+/g;eval
>
> usage: qrpff 153 2 8 105 225 < /mnt/dvd/VOB_FILENAME \
> | extract_mpeg2 | mpeg2dec -
>
> http://www.eff.org/ http://www.opendvd.org/
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/
>
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