• anon (unregistered) in reply to waffles
    waffles:
    Mai-chan:
    In all fairness, "retard" means a "sustained release pill" in the medicine business...
    I didn't know condoms were pills. O_o
    I suppose if you really wanted to stretch it... suppositories? That'd go with the sustained release bit too :)

    Of course, this does presuppose anal, but hey, anything to prove a tenuous link.

  • Randy Orrison (unregistered)

    The IP address could be intentional. Like using telephone numbers that start with 555-, it's guaranteed not to be a real one. (I've done exactly that myself on occasion.)

  • Herohtar (unregistered) in reply to death
    death:
    As an added bonus: ping 127.86.132.4 PING 127.86.132.4 (127.86.132.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.86.132.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.023 ms 64 bytes from 127.86.132.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.023 ms 64 bytes from 127.86.132.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.034 ms 64 bytes from 127.86.132.4: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.026 ms it responds to ping:P

    That's because 127.86.132.4 points to the same thing as 127.0.0.1 and localhost. In fact, you can use anything of the form 127...x (where * is a random number from 0 to 255 and x is a random number from 1 to 254)

  • Will (unregistered)

    I saw that episode of CSI and I assumed they purposely used an invalid IP address for the same reason 555 phone numbers are used: so the unlucky person on the other end of the wire isn't inundated. Makes sense to me, at least. I prefer they do it this way.

  • (cs) in reply to waffles
    waffles:
    Mai-chan:
    In all fairness, "retard" means a "sustained release pill" in the medicine business...
    I didn't know condoms were pills. O_o
    What makes you so sure it's a condom? Sure, it looks like one at first glance, but could as well be a tablet.
  • jon spencer (unregistered)

    Why not just a link to the shows web site?

  • BOFH (unregistered) in reply to Erik
    Erik:
    The real WTF is that people actually bother watching CSI: Miami.

    And if you want a real laugh fest, try watching Die Hard 4. I thought it was a great action movie, but virtually everything high-tech in it was so utterly wrong I had to keep myself from yelling at the TV every five minutes.

    Talking about Die Hard 4:

    [image] [image]

    Look at the top left, he has "Cain and Able" installed => http://www.oxid.it/cain.html

    http://oxid.netsons.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1165&highlight=die+hard

  • George Bush (unregistered) in reply to Monkios

    The CSI one would have been funnier if it was

    314.159.265.359

    CAPTCHA: yummy

    Ooh... yummy pi

  • George Bush (unregistered) in reply to Monkios

    The CSI one would have been funnier if it was

    314.159.265.359

    CAPTCHA: yummy

    Ooh... yummy pi

  • AnonHacker (unregistered)

    About the "condom":

    I think this isn't a condom after all. It looks like one at first glance, but it doesn't say condom on the package, or anything else that would without a doubt identify it as one.

    Pills are often packaged like that, too. I've seen ordinary vitamin pills and aspirin pills packaged like that. Also note that the photo above gives very few hints about the actual size of the object. It might turn out to be somewhat smaller or bigger than a condom.

    As someone before me already pointed out, the word "retard" would make perfect sense when printed on a pill, but not when printed on a condom.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    The condom is extended release? Does that mean it's designed to make the man last longer? <G>

    Captcha: smile

  • Geekwad (unregistered)

    Folks who think the CSI thing was on purpose probably have not watched the show.

  • Grandom Guy (unregistered)

    The German "TV computer specialist/hacker" Peter Huth once made a presentation showing how easy it is to break into other machines. His program scanned IP Addresses like this.

    Shortly afterwards he affirmed his competence by leaving his complete user database (he also used to sell programs) on his ftp server.

  • hognoxious (unregistered) in reply to chris
    chris:
    "There's no IP equivalent to the "555" telephone numbers..."

    Wrong, RFC 3030, 192.0.2.0/24.

    Thing is, it doesn't look real. Too many zeroes.

  • Have you checked the WTF lately (unregistered)

    Weve traced the connection! Its coming from 127.0.0.1!

  • Everett (unregistered) in reply to JDM
    JDM:
    The CSI thing isn't as braindead as it looks ... and I've seen it before in more tech-savvy movies like AntiTrust.

    They use invalid IP addresses because they don't want to direct any viewers to a real address. There's no IP equivalent to the "555" telephone numbers...

    Lies. 127.0.0.1 should work sufficiently to deter the script kiddies from getting ideas.

  • (cs)

    You guys do realize you'd all still be whining if the IP in the screenshot was 192.168.23.54, right?

  • Ada Lovelace (unregistered) in reply to worsethatuseless
    I'd have gone for a joke and used 127.0.0.1
    They're saving that for one of those horror movies where they tell the girl "We've traced the IMs, and they're coming from *inside* the house..."
  • Ada Lovelace (unregistered)

    I believe the "retard" on the condom is a last-minute attempt to give some advice and opinion because you're probably about to do something really stupid.

  • Retard (unregistered)

    TRWTFI: the rubber should said "fucktard".

    I agree, i believe it's a warning about something you have in mind. Kinda like fortune cookies. "Retard". That's a no.

  • (cs) in reply to George Bush
    George Bush:
    The CSI one would have been funnier if it was

    314.159.265.359

    Sadly, 31.41.59.265 is in reserved space and is not assigned. 3.141.59.265 is theoretically assigned to General Electric, but they seem not to be using it.

    e-based IP addresses appear to exist, but they don't respond to pings. Phi also gets me nowhere. Oh well, it was a nice thought.

  • MyCatIsDead (unregistered) in reply to Tachyon

    [quote=Tachyon]There is either a brick wall, a void or a very large drop behind that door.[/quote]

    Or we could pull a Schroedinger's and state that all 3 are currently there...

    CAPTCHA: quake. That game was half-decent.

  • '; DROP DATABASE;-- (unregistered) in reply to Simetrical
    Simetrical:
    3.141.59.265 is theoretically assigned to General Electric
    What Internet is that on?
  • ahganom (unregistered)

    Just a guess, but is the Quantum Physics Lab at Georgia Tech located in the Klauss Building?

  • PeriSoft (unregistered) in reply to S
    S:
    Writing "Emergency Exit Only!" seems to work fine, carry the same message and not sound quite so silly. (Optionally, "Door is Alarmed!" can be added.)

    Why would the door panic?

  • Wallace T. Farglebottom (unregistered) in reply to Phlip

    Sorry, but any door marked "Exit" must be part of an exit route. It is not possible for a door to be both an exit and not an exit. This is definitely a WTF, if you'd care to read the book.

  • (cs) in reply to Wallace T. Farglebottom

    Now you are making assumptions that people follow the laws.

  • George Bush (unregistered) in reply to ahganom

    Just a guess, but is the Quantum Physics Lab at Georgia Tech located in the Klauss Building?

    Wow. Schroedinger's exit.

    CAPTCHA: craaazy

  • Retard (unregistered)

    what the hell is "Przepisy kulinarne" supposed to mean?

  • Danodemano (unregistered) in reply to waffles
    waffles:
    Mai-chan:
    In all fairness, "retard" means a "sustained release pill" in the medicine business...
    I didn't know condoms were pills. O_o

    So that's what I've been doing wrong all these years....

  • (cs) in reply to Retard
    Retard:
    what the hell is "Przepisy kulinarne" supposed to mean?

    That the 1337 sp@mmz0rs broke our CAPTCHA!

  • Anon (unregistered)

    If they wanted to do the same thing as a 55555 phone number... what not a 555 ip address... like 555.555.555.555... well? I think they probably really did not realise and then when questioned said they did it on purpose... I mean heck, there are so many IPs that are reserved/unused as such >.>...

  • (cs) in reply to Anon

    it would have been better to use a non addressable IP address, because as is, it's simply nonsensical. IP addresses are 4 numbers in the range 0-255. What they did would be like making a phone number that was 1-63h-4hd-612g. It's using things outside the domain!

  • Steph (unregistered)

    I don't think you could have chosen a better place for a Viagra ad...

  • 'taters (unregistered) in reply to Spectre
    Spectre:
    Retard:
    what the hell is "Przepisy kulinarne" supposed to mean?

    That the 1337 sp@mmz0rs broke our CAPTCHA!

    Meh, probably done manually. :-p
    Steph:
    I don't think you could have chosen a better place for a Viagra ad...
    Like trying to sell a fridge to an eskimo.
  • Jon (unregistered) in reply to hognoxious
    hognoxious:
    chris:
    "There's no IP equivalent to the "555" telephone numbers..."

    Wrong, RFC 3030, 192.0.2.0/24.

    Thing is, it doesn't look real. Too many zeroes.
    The /24 indicates that this is a range where the first 24 bits are fixed. Use 192.0.2.185 if you like.

  • Kayser (unregistered)

    159.33.9.234 actually belongs to CBS.

    Someone took their own IP and replaced the first digit with a three...

  • Marcel (unregistered) in reply to Loren Pechtel
    Loren Pechtel:
    The condom is extended release? Does that mean it's designed to make the man last longer? <G>

    Actually yes, there are condoms that promise this feat (look up the Durex Performa for example) and this just might be one of those.

  • Cappy (unregistered)

    Here in America us professional DBAs call those Project Manger Lunch Bags.

  • mct (unregistered) in reply to Erik
    Erik:
    The real WTF is that people actually bother watching CSI: Miami.

    And if you want a real laugh fest, try watching Die Hard 4. I thought it was a great action movie, but virtually everything high-tech in it was so utterly wrong I had to keep myself from yelling at the TV every five minutes.

    My favourite is still this one, even though it's from a novel, not TV/movies... http://www.avdf.com/feb99/hum_h001.html

  • Ben (unregistered) in reply to Herohtar
    Herohtar:
    In fact, you can use anything of the form 127.*.*.x (where * is a random number from 0 to 255 and x is a random number from 1 to 254)

    FWIW x can be 0 or 255 where the address will not be 127.0.0.0 or 127.255.255.255:

    $ ping 127.0.0.255 PING 127.0.0.255 (127.0.0.255) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.0.255: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.096 ms ...

    $ ping 127.0.1.0 PING 127.0.1.0 (127.0.1.0) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 127.0.1.0: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.128 ms ...

    This is because the network is 127.0.0.0/8 which is 127.0.0.0 through 127.255.255.255 (inclusive, but the two extremes are used for network address and broadcast)

    And Windows sucks:

    C:>ping 127.5.4.6

    Pinging 127.5.4.6 with 32 bytes of data:

    Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

    So it's quite obvious where things are going...

  • MaDeR (unregistered)

    What the hell a polish spam is doing here? :|

    For curious: "przepis kulinarny" means "recipe"... for making food. Supposedly tasty.

  • (cs)

    The "retard" thing only doesn't make sense if you speak English and no French. The literal translation from French is "delay".

  • tacticus (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Why didn't they just use a private subnet address like (10.33.9.234)?
    Well, chanses are, there's a Sue Frivolously out there, who is "tech savy" enough to look at the IP adress showing on hes nettwork settings. And when she finds the IP adress of hers to match that of CSI, she'll sue on the grounds of harrasment. (You have no idea how much hacker activity just starting occuring to her when her IP adress was shown on CSI...)
  • (cs)

    "Ceci n'est pas une sortie"

  • awt (unregistered) in reply to brazzy
    brazzy:
    What makes you so sure it's a condom? Sure, it looks like one at first glance, but could as well be a tablet.

    But a really chewy one..

  • eskimo (unregistered) in reply to 'taters
    'taters:
    Like trying to sell a fridge to an eskimo.

    Actually, eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing..

  • pervy (unregistered) in reply to awt
    awt:
    brazzy:
    What makes you so sure it's a condom? Sure, it looks like one at first glance, but could as well be a tablet.

    But a really chewy one..

    C'mon, Linda! Some guy on the 'net said it was a tablet. Now swallow!

  • Linda (unregistered) in reply to pervy
    pervy:
    awt:
    brazzy:
    What makes you so sure it's a condom? Sure, it looks like one at first glance, but could as well be a tablet.

    But a really chewy one..

    C'mon, Linda! Some guy on the 'net said it was a tablet. Now swallow!

    You're a pig. Go back to your pvpsale site and leave me alone.

  • (cs) in reply to eskimo
    eskimo:
    'taters:
    Like trying to sell a fridge to an eskimo.

    Actually, eskimos use refrigerators to keep food from freezing..

    How's that work then - refrigerators can only cool food down, not heat it up. That's like saying that Volcano Men buy kettles to get cooler water.

    Not only that, but most igloos don't have power supplies (do they??)

    (Of course, if you're talking about Eskimos who live in proper houses with central heating (and probably air conditioning, since they live in North America!) then a refrigerator would probably be useful anyway).

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