• i will now boycott the daily wtf (unregistered)

    YOU CANT FUCKING DO THAT!!!!!!! THE SOPA LAW IS AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH

  • (cs) in reply to i will now boycott the daily wtf
    YOU CANT FUCKING DO THAT!!!!!!! THE SOPA LAW IS AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH

    Missing sarcasm tag, or really stupid commenter? SO HARD TO TELL!

    Anyone know where I can get my sarcasm detector serviced? I would love to find out it's broken. Otherwise, I'd have to find a new planet to live on.

  • (cs)

    Why not use a hosts file, rather than a notebook?

    Also, your server is "misconfigured", it doesn't load any page at all when accessing the site via number rather than name.

  • (cs)

    In honor of the blackout, /b/ should rape house.gov, senate.gov, and fcc.gov.

  • (cs) in reply to ais523
    ais523:
    Why not use a hosts file, rather than a notebook?

    Also, your server is "misconfigured", it doesn't load any page at all when accessing the site via number rather than name.

    That's ridiculous on its face and completely untrue besides.

  • (cs)

    We could all switch to TORR / onion routing and let the government forget about every controlling the net again.

  • Rasmus Lerdorf (unregistered)

    We can only hope that our legislators introduce common sense guidelines to ban ASP (and .NET/ASP.NET) as well so we can all return to the more sensible PHP standard.

  • (cs)

    I can't wait to return to a much simpler era.

    Semi-seriously: I blame Napster for all the piracy awareness of the last decade. Remember how before Napster became so widespread, we used to share files peacefully over FTP servers?

    And the non-geeks, who were oblivious to our activity, would ask "How are you playing music on your computer?" It's an MP3. "An MP3?" Right. "What's an MP3?" Music. "Well where did you get it?" I downloaded it for free, from the Internet. "You can do that with the Internet?" I did, didn't I? "Well is it legal?" shrug "Well how did you get it?" FTP. "FTWhat?" Exactly.

    Ahh, those were the days.

  • (cs)

    Just wait until the IPv6 transition.

  • James (unregistered)

    I'm 100% against SOPA. But suggesting that people build a hard-coded Domain->IP mapping is incredibly retarded. It might work for a site like thedailwtf, but in general, the domain->IP mapping WILL change over time and/or location. Having a hard-coded mapping is much like running a custom /etc/hosts file 30 years ago - which is to say - it's damn old tech that's been replaced by better tech.

  • Mike (unregistered)

    Just came to post that you have lost a regular reader. Your white out message does not make any sense. You are sacrificing freedom for an american censored internet, just so you can have a tidier DNS/IP system??

  • Heh (unregistered) in reply to Mike
    Mike:
    Just came to post that you have lost a regular reader. Your white out message does not make any sense. You are sacrificing freedom for an american censored internet, just so you can have a tidier DNS/IP system??

    Another Sarcasm 101 flunkie.

  • Casey B (unregistered)

    I can certainly appreciate sarcasm, but I think the implications of SOPA / PIPA are topics that are already so misunderstood by the typical reader (let alone Congressmen) that this kind of misdirection is entirely inappropriate.

    The blackout is a serious protest to dangerous legislation. The Daily WTF is turning it into a joke.

  • Red is not an option (unregistered)

    SOPA is racist! SOPA makes Blakcs blakcer. SOPA makes Wigths Wighter. SOPA makes Brwons Brwoner. Everyone should stop using SOPA and accumulate enough grime to hide your true coulrs.

  • Chairman Kaga (unregistered)
    hoodaticus:
    In honor of the blackout, /b/ should rape house.gov, senate.gov, and fcc.gov.

    Have you tried accessing them in the last hour or so? They've ALREADY succumbed to the slashdot effect, and it's goddamn MIDNIGHT.

    Wait until people wake up tomorrow and see all this. Capitol Hill might just implode.

  • Avenger (unregistered)

    An amusing approach to the issue. Still makes more sense than the legislation itself. I congratulate you.

    However, one would expect much more technical detail and wisdom from thedailywtf. How, for example, could you forget to devise a solution to shared hosting problem? As in, hundreds of websites sharing the same IP? Hmm?

  • Larry Osterman (unregistered) in reply to Chairman Kaga

    Good Job Alex, well done.

  • quollism (unregistered)

    IP address is fine until you want to host multiple sites off the one address without having a "which site do you want?" gateway.

    Pedantry aside, i smirked. Good one. :)

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    Not being a US citizen, I join the Daily WTF in supporting SOPA. I long for the day it's implemented, and the US becomes a giant, gaping black hole on the internet, as every internet company worth it's salt bails to an overseas headquarters.

    It'll drive the international community to a truly distributed name service, and the look on the economists faces when they realize that their government has just cut the off from every international market will be priceless.

    Other than oil, does the US even make anything any more that isn't sold over the internet? Music, movies, software, web services.

  • Mike (unregistered) in reply to Avenger
    Avenger:
    How, for example, could you forget to devise a solution to shared hosting problem? As in, hundreds of websites sharing the same IP? Hmm?

    Easy: IPv6.

    Or even better, bring back GeoCities!

  • Chris Angelico (unregistered) in reply to Casey B
    Casey B:
    I can certainly appreciate sarcasm, but I think the implications of SOPA / PIPA are topics that are already so misunderstood by the typical reader (let alone Congressmen) that this kind of misdirection is entirely inappropriate.

    The blackout is a serious protest to dangerous legislation. The Daily WTF is turning it into a joke.

    Unfortunately, I have to assent, at least in part. Jokes like this often get read out of context and completely misinterpreted.

    But it IS a good joke. As has been mentioned in the comments, a hosts file is exactly that notebook - and before DNS existed, getting a hosts file via FTP was the normal thing (at least, so I learned in history studies - DNS was invented when I was a toddler). Sometimes, you need to poke fun at something in order to kill it.

    By the way Alex, where's the DECAPTCHA? I want to prove that I am a robot!

    mutters "racist"

  • Tom (unregistered)

    Im removing The Daily WTF from my RSS reader, I don't want to have anything to do with someone who supports SOPA ! :-/

  • Chris (unregistered)

    Although I appreciate the joke, and lol @ the people who don't get it, I think even the appearance of support can damage the cause. People will point to whatever they can to say 'see? they think its good' and then read the first sentence and move on. This is a war for eyeballs and you have 15 seconds to make an impact.

  • bennettp123 (unregistered) in reply to James
    Stupid:
    I'm 100% against SOPA. But suggesting that people build a hard-coded Domain->IP mapping is incredibly retarded. It might work for a site like thedailwtf, but in general, the domain->IP mapping WILL change over time and/or location. Having a hard-coded mapping is much like running a custom /etc/hosts file 30 years ago - which is to say - it's damn old tech that's been replaced by better tech.

    Who cares if IP addresses change over time? Phone numbers change all the time, but that doesn't prevent my grandma from calling me on a phone number which I disconnected several years ago.

    I don't know what's the big deal.

  • yoda (unregistered)

    Damn, better start writing down the IPs of my favorite porn sites.

  • Ban JavaScript? You've got my vote (unregistered)

    While I am in favour of banning Javascript, I disagree about the replacement.

    Sorry, but Gophers are far too user friendly. We don't need no stinking menus. Real users should be able to do it all with a monitor command prompt and hex op codes.

    Think of the bandwidth saving and speed increase if every command and response were just a few bytes!

  • synp (unregistered) in reply to Rasmus Lerdorf
    Rasmus Lerdorf:
    We can only hope that our legislators introduce common sense guidelines to ban ASP (and .NET/ASP.NET) as well so we can all return to the more sensible PHP standard.

    Nope, just CGIs written in C. Anything else is just fluff.

  • Nappy (unregistered) in reply to MiffTheFox
    MiffTheFox:
    Just wait until the IPv6 transition.
    We won't need IPv6 when all those stealing b...s are gone.

    ps www.google.com 74.125.79.99, 74.125.79.104, 74.125.79.103, 74.125.79.105, 4.125.79.147, 74.125.79.106 pffeewww www.whitehouse.gov 46.33.69.17, 46.33.69.58 and dial 2.16.5.166 for www.senate.gov to complain why we still have this complicated dns system

  • _ (unregistered)

    The "Forums" link is broken.

  • Avenger (unregistered) in reply to Chris
    Chris:
    Although I appreciate the joke, and lol @ the people who don't get it, I think even the appearance of support can damage the cause. People will point to whatever they can to say 'see? they think its good' and then read the first sentence and move on. This is a war for eyeballs and you have 15 seconds to make an impact.

    I agree. This is seriez bizniz and we don't have the luxury of assuming everyone who happens by this site have the couple of brain cells to know what is what.

    Even I almost got trolled by the first paragraph.

  • Avenger (unregistered) in reply to Andrew
    Andrew:
    Not being a US citizen, I join the Daily WTF in supporting SOPA. I long for the day it's implemented, and the US becomes a giant, gaping black hole on the internet, as every internet company worth it's salt bails to an overseas headquarters.

    It'll drive the international community to a truly distributed name service, and the look on the economists faces when they realize that their government has just cut the off from every international market will be priceless.

    Other than oil, does the US even make anything any more that isn't sold over the internet? Music, movies, software, web services.

    A Naive assumption. When it comes to matters of internet, every friggin government out there just starts by COPYING what U.S. does, add some filters for "think of the children!" idiots and roll with it.

    So, dear U.S. citizen. YOU are indirectly responsible for how WE use the internet. Please fix it... for all of us.

  • Threner (unregistered) in reply to Casey B

    And how is it different from anything else in theDailyWTF?

  • ali (unregistered) in reply to i will now boycott the daily wtf
    i will now boycott the daily wtf:
    YOU CANT FUCKING DO THAT!!!!!!! THE SOPA LAW IS AGAINST FREEDOM OF SPEECH
    *You* can't f*ing do that! The SOPA is against writing fucking in all caps!
  • Steve (unregistered)

    I have to admit, I was about 1/3 of the way through when hit hit. Probably sometime around the point when I was thinking "What the fu-ohhhhhhh!"

  • Tom (unregistered)

    For a moment I was afraid you were serious ;)

  • DutchMan (unregistered)

    You're right that the internet is growing to big and is going to break. But the SOPA act isn't going to change it.

    The SOPA act will block websites that contain copyrighted material, but it's just the beginning of something bigger. It's the beginning of the Great firewall of American. If we let this happen they will keep adding thing they may block, and when will we stop them then.

    STOP SOPA BEFORE IT'S TO LATE.

  • SopaDopaDooptieDooDapTooWaayh (unregistered)

    Ah, Alex's finally lost it...

  • Troll in Moll (unregistered) in reply to Avenger
    Avenger:
    Chris:
    Although I appreciate the joke, and lol @ the people who don't get it, I think even the appearance of support can damage the cause. People will point to whatever they can to say 'see? they think its good' and then read the first sentence and move on. This is a war for eyeballs and you have 15 seconds to make an impact.

    I agree. This is seriez bizniz and we don't have the luxury of assuming everyone who happens by this site have the couple of brain cells to know what is what.

    Even I almost got trolled by the first paragraph.

    It is funny how IT people always equate non-IT people with dumb people.

    You know, just because you have learned computer stuff does not make you more intelligent (in fact I've seen many dumb ppl in IT). Having not learned computer stuff does not make you less intelligent.

    Ditch it. You are dumb because you can't fix your car yourself. You are dumb because you don't know how to send cardboard boxes to asia. You are dumb because you assume that everyone is dumb except the non-dumb IT-ppl.

    /reality-check

  • Avenger (unregistered) in reply to Troll in Moll
    Troll in Moll:
    Avenger:
    Chris:
    Although I appreciate the joke, and lol @ the people who don't get it, I think even the appearance of support can damage the cause. People will point to whatever they can to say 'see? they think its good' and then read the first sentence and move on. This is a war for eyeballs and you have 15 seconds to make an impact.

    I agree. This is seriez bizniz and we don't have the luxury of assuming everyone who happens by this site have the couple of brain cells to know what is what.

    Even I almost got trolled by the first paragraph.

    It is funny how IT people always equate non-IT people with dumb people.

    You know, just because you have learned computer stuff does not make you more intelligent (in fact I've seen many dumb ppl in IT). Having not learned computer stuff does not make you less intelligent.

    Ditch it. You are dumb because you can't fix your car yourself. You are dumb because you don't know how to send cardboard boxes to asia. You are dumb because you assume that everyone is dumb except the non-dumb IT-ppl.

    /reality-check

    WTF are you talking about? This is not a technical problem. It is a FREEDOM PROBLEM. It doesn't take "IT people" to realize SOPA is full of crap. Get your head out of the bin.

  • SiC (unregistered)

    TRWTF is SOPA

  • Noob (unregistered)

    Frist

    OK maybe not

  • Blasphemer (unregistered)

    Trololololol.

    But seriously, not funny.

  • PoPSiCLe (unregistered) in reply to Troll in Moll
    Troll in Moll:
    It is funny how IT people always equate non-IT people with dumb people.

    You know, just because you have learned computer stuff does not make you more intelligent (in fact I've seen many dumb ppl in IT). Having not learned computer stuff does not make you less intelligent.

    Ditch it. You are dumb because you can't fix your car yourself. You are dumb because you don't know how to send cardboard boxes to asia. You are dumb because you assume that everyone is dumb except the non-dumb IT-ppl.

    /reality-check

    I'm not sure if you're trolling or not (cause of the name), but lets assume for a second you're not.

    I don't equate non-IT people with dumb people. I consider ALL people dumb people, until they prove otherwise. It's a healthy approach, and mostly it works out very well.

    Besides, I can both fix my computer and my car, if need be, same as I can send boxes to Asia.

    But I'm not dumb because I consider all people dumb until proven otherwise. If you look at all the goons getting media-time, it's hard not to consider all people dumb, especially those who do not care to delve into a subject more thoroughly but simply believes what the dunces on TV and elsewhere in the media feed them. And believe me, they are the majority.

    On a different note: I'm not sure sarcasm is the right tool for the job. As others have stated, the subtle sarcasm used in this post is easy to miss for the less technical, and it's easy to use this as a "see, here's someone who understand the need for this legislation". Maybe an obvious /sarcasm-tag, at least, Alex?

  • Wyverald (unregistered) in reply to Troll in Moll

    Something is wrong with this troll. Now whoever said anything about IT or non-IT people? Who assumed non-IT people were dumb? Well by your statement, everyone is dumb including you yourself, Troll in Moll, so don't act like you're the one seeing the most clearly. Apparently you're not. Go vent your anger towards IT people elsewhere with justification, or you're just counter-proving your own point.

    On another topic, I'm in total agreement with Avenger and Chris; while I appreciate the humorous attempt, I don't think this is quite the best time for it.

  • anon (unregistered)

    Alex, if this is a kind of a joke, then it's really not funny. You should avoid trying to be funny, you always fail...

  • (cs)

    Nice one, Alex. Some people might need a sarcasm detector recalibration, though.

    I was thinking, with all these programmers here, perhaps we could start central list like you proposed with a kind of nickname for the server and its real, IP address. That would make it easier to refer to other sites.

    We could even use something like GreaseMonkey to automatically read the server's name, look up its IP address and redirect the browser.

    All we'd need would be some authority to keep the list of names and addresses sane.

    How about it?

  • Wladimir Palant (unregistered)

    That's a really neat way to drive away people who don't read beyond the first line. Websites should do that more often, that might create entire zones of the internet populated only by intelligent beings. Congratulations to Alex, ever user who stated "I won't be reading your site any more" above is a huge success.

  • Troll in Dur (unregistered) in reply to Wyverald
    Wyverald:
    Something is wrong with this troll. Now whoever said anything about IT or non-IT people? Who assumed non-IT people were dumb? Well by your statement, everyone is dumb including you yourself, Troll in Moll, so don't act like you're the one seeing the most clearly. Apparently you're not. Go vent your anger towards IT people elsewhere with justification, or you're just counter-proving your own point.

    On another topic, I'm in total agreement with Avenger and Chris; while I appreciate the humorous attempt, I don't think this is quite the best time for it.

    By his name, it looks like he succeeded.

    Btw, I am porn star in real life.

  • CHINESE FREEDOM (unregistered)

    THATAS OKAY PPL. CHINESIAN FIREWOL IS NOT BAD AT ALLL, AND YOU EUROPEEN PPL DONONT GET IT

    CAPATCHA FEUGITA: I HAD THAT FORR LUNCH LOOOOOL

  • Yanman (unregistered)

    Congratulations: you broke the Side Bar WTF links.

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