• eric (unregistered)

    well... Telix certainly was an excellent program. Who needs all these graphical doohickeys anyway ?

  • Juan Quintela (unregistered) in reply to MiffTheFox

    Nah, just bought a bigger notebook.

  • Jason (unregistered)

    If I am reading this right, Alex is saying that TRWTF with SOPA is that there is already a tried and true way to get around the DNS hijacking that SOPA would introduce - by returning to hosts files and the days before DNS.

  • cappeca (unregistered)

    First I was DAMN Then I was LOL

  • Mr Wibble (unregistered)

    As a regular reader, I was expecting something along these lines today. Still made me chuckle though.

  • Robbert (unregistered)

    As a regular reader I feel ashamed for not getting it until the GOPHER line. :(

  • Carl (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    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.

    Yes, yes! Listen to the boog!

    The lusers are joyfully rushing to dump their general-purpose desktop computers and migrate en masse to "smart" phones, otherwise known as the resurgence of walled gardens like Prodigy and AOL before the Internet.

    The complainers -- who would shit a starfish if you dared to configure their desktop so that they couldn't install malware -- now happily pay a monthly fee for a device that never allows them root/admin... that can record everything they do and send it all off to SpyCorp Central... that can almost force them to drive to Best Buy when they do a search for Home Depot, if Best Buy is "sponsoring" the maps today...

    Once the mass market dries up, general-purpose computing devices, and the software to operate them, will no longer be available at your local grocery store. You'll have to put them together from parts and install your own OS. It won't be easy. Only nerds will be able to figure it out.

    And then once again we will have our glorious network back, free of the stampeding shoppers, scheming senators, hand-wringing hannahs, fake-AV fucktards, and all the other scum and villainy that has ruined our playground.

    Killing DNS is the next logical step! Go SOPA!!

  • marclurr (unregistered)

    not sure if this is a joke or what.

  • Ralph (unregistered)

    Where do I sign up to make JavaScript illegal?

  • Bert (unregistered)

    I think this one may have been too subtle for most (including me, /wrists).

    Also, I love how Wikipedia's "blacking out" involves fully loading the page as usual, but then just using a bit of javascript to overlay the notice. It's mildly irritating, but it isn't stopping me using their site.

  • Ralph (unregistered) in reply to Bert
    Bert:
    I think this one may have been too subtle for most (including me, /wrists).

    Also, I love how Wikipedia's "blacking out" involves fully loading the page as usual, but then just using a bit of javascript to overlay the notice. It's mildly irritating, but it isn't stopping me using their site.

    Ahh, that explains why I didn't see any black-out on Wikipedia today!

  • Larry (unregistered)

    Somehow, the juxtaposition of today's article and yesterday's "Terrorists!" article seems appropriate.

    Somehow.

  • Pim (unregistered) in reply to Yanman
    Yanman:
    Congratulations: you broke the Side Bar WTF links.
    Do you actually mean that you can't figure out how to visit the forums now?

    Hint: try actually typing the uri for once.

  • AP2 (unregistered)
    [image]

    For fucks sake, I can't believe how many people are falling for this. "Subtle"?! The second fucking paragraph gives it away!

    Anyone who doesn't get the sarcasm fully deserves to get their internets SOP'ed. It's not like they'll be able to distinguish a seized domain sign from the real page.

  • Avenger (unregistered) in reply to AP2
    AP2:

    For fucks sake, I can't believe how many people are falling for this. "Subtle"?! The second fucking paragraph gives it away!

    Anyone who doesn't get the sarcasm fully deserves to get their internets SOP'ed. It's not like they'll be able to distinguish a seized domain sign from the real page.

    And you are assuming everybody reads the second paragraph?

  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to Avenger
    Avenger:
    AP2:

    For fucks sake, I can't believe how many people are falling for this. "Subtle"?! The second fucking paragraph gives it away!

    Anyone who doesn't get the sarcasm fully deserves to get their internets SOP'ed. It's not like they'll be able to distinguish a seized domain sign from the real page.

    And you are assuming everybody reads the second paragraph?

    Nope. Just the literate people.

  • Quincy (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    Yanman:
    Congratulations: you broke the Side Bar WTF links.
    Do you actually mean that you can't figure out how to visit the forums now?

    Hint: try actually typing the uri for once.

    I can't figure out what uri to type. Could you please tell us what is supposed to be so obvious? If I try forums.thedailywtf.com I just get the anti SOPA text with no way to continue and using the IP address of the main site on a forum url gives an error.

  • Adam (unregistered)

    The sarcasm in this is fantastic. +1

  • (cs) in reply to Quincy
    Quincy:
    If I try forums.thedailywtf.com I just get the anti SOPA text with no way to continue and using the IP address of the main site on a forum url gives an error.
    Oh... I could access http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/25562.aspx with no problems. Sorry.
  • Ronwell (unregistered) in reply to DutchMan
    DutchMan:
    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.

    It's going to break? Like, in half or will it be more of a shattering?

  • Leet (unregistered)

    It's okay everybody! I downloaded the Internet yesterday, and will put it up on my BBS today (Scrotum BBS - the Best BBS in the West!).

  • Delmania (unregistered)

    SOPA/PIPA are dangerous bills that need to be stopped, that's true, but another insidious bill before Congress is the "Research Work Acts" (HR 3699) which seeks to lock publicly funded research in the United States behind the paywall of publishers, forcing us to double pay for science that could save or improve our lives.

  • The Governator (unregistered)

    Simple-minded Opinionated Political Assholes

  • Nick (unregistered) in reply to PhilipTyre

    I was about ready to do the same thing. . . . I was getting really riled up and ready to write of the site entirely. Then I read the article and returned me knee to it's pre-jerk position.

  • (cs) in reply to MiffTheFox

    Get a bigger notebook. It's no big deal. Edit: Apologies to Juan.

  • peanut (unregistered) in reply to The Governator
    The Governator:
    Simple-minded Opinionated Political Assholes

    Your dissent has been registered. You will be closely monitored.

    Your's sincerely,

    Uncle Sam

  • James (unregistered)

    Wonder how many people close-tabbed and unsubscribed their RSS feeds in disgust, before realising this was sarcasm.

    <full disclosure> I nearly did. </full disclosure>

  • Medinoc (unregistered) in reply to Pim
    Pim:
    Quincy:
    If I try forums.thedailywtf.com I just get the anti SOPA text with no way to continue and using the IP address of the main site on a forum url gives an error.
    Oh... I could access http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/25562.aspx with no problems. Sorry.
    I couldn't. I still get the whiteout message. I also tried with the forums.thedailywtf.com IP address (74.50.106.245) and got whiteouted as well.
  • corroded (unregistered) in reply to MiffTheFox

    The Zeronian migration was a cake walk compared to the upcoming IPv6 migration

  • Roger (unregistered) in reply to MiffTheFox

    I'm sure you also liked the good old days when you had to go and get your own meat and "maybe" end up being some other creature's dinner, but unfortunately there is a thing called progress which sometimes comes for good and sometimes not. I'll separate the rest of the evening to go out and hunt my own Cow in order to do a nice barbecue for my friends.

  • TheRider (unregistered)

    Did anybody notice that the greyed-out part on http://thedailywtf.com says, on the top-right, "Signed on as Alex Papadimoulis"? I never knew I could hack this site by simply entering its URL. Or maybe we are already hacked by the FBI?

  • Anon (unregistered)

    How about a big 'ol HELL NO.... I won't support SOPA, and you've broken my heart by supporting it.

    I know you don't care about 1 reader, but that's fine. I do. Goodbye.

  • Bo (unregistered)

    sarcasm or not, anarcho-primitivism ftw! we should go even further with abolishing technology, things would be much simpler and enjoyable

  • mildewhall.com (unregistered)
    "Each phone number transported you to a quaint, peaceful community that was almost entirely self-sufficient"
    Are you sure you were there? And did you run a BBS? My experience of running one, based on a number of software packages was anything but peaceful. In fact, who can forget the prequal to the London Riots, the Fidonet wars? In fact, it got so bad at one stage they were going to rename it FightoNet.

    What you fail to point out of course was that although these communities were often quaint, they were also very expensive to run, at least in the UK: consider the cost of (telephone) line rental, maybe for several lines, and modems that could cost up to $1000 each, and all this done for no income. Oh, and I'd also need another phone line to make voice calls on. Yeah, it was fun, and taught me a lot about datacomms, but when the Internet finally arrived, I knew I was saved and my wallet breathed a long sigh of relief.

    And as for SOPA/PIPA, I don't support it in its present form: as a creative I'm the last person to want my stuff ripped off but I also want my alleged freedom of expression. If the US Government gets the bills through, then it'll happen globally and we'll need to find an alternative. Believe me, it won't be a diallup BBS!

  • PB (unregistered) in reply to Tom

    I would say that I agree, Tom, but I do believe that you missed the punchline of this joke. If you read to the end of the article, the part that says "We can only hope that our legislators introduce common sense guidelines to ban HTTP (and HTML/JavaScript) as well so we can all return to the more sensible GOPHER standard." should be a big clue that this is sarcasm. I was even fooled until the last paragraph talking about an IPN renaissance.

    Note to future readers, THIS IS A SARCASM POST!!!

  • (cs)

    The average poster here laughed at 2g1c, but somehow thinks SOPA is too serious to laugh at.

  • Anonymous (unregistered) in reply to Tom

    It's a joke, silly.

  • (cs) in reply to Medinoc
    Medinoc:
    Pim:
    I could access http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/25562.aspx with no problems. Sorry.
    I couldn't. I still get the whiteout message. I also tried with the forums.thedailywtf.com IP address (74.50.106.245) and got whiteouted as well.
    I still can. Could it have something to do with the fact that I'm located outside the US?
  • Onaka (unregistered) in reply to Tom

    You do realize it's a joke, don't you?

  • Devin (unregistered) in reply to Tom

    I hope you're being sarcastic because this post certainly is.

  • Just Kelly (unregistered)

    Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you? A list of nice, easy TCP/IP numbers, ready to go. Let The Man do the routing for you, right? You make me sick. SICK!

    When I was a kid, we did our OWN routing, dammit! UUCP bang paths! We knew where we were going, and how to get there! So what if it took upwards of ten hops sometimes to get to your destination. It built character! Look at me--I'm still a character! And yeah, sometimes one or more of the hops on the route was down for some reason or another. But you just found an alt-route! Duh, that's why we have big empty walls: for the network backbone maps! I haven't seen one of those in ages. Breaks me poor heart, it does.

    Anyway, you really wanna kill off this piracy nonsense, it's easy. Kids these days downloading blu-ray movies do it because they can get the whole thing in less time than it takes to watch the dang thing. Why, in my day, you had to stay up all night to nursemaid downloading an animated GIF! There's your answer right there! Crank bandwidth down to how it was in the old days, where it was easier to get a job and earn the money to buy the damn thing. Faster, too. If 1200 baud was enough for me to chat online, it should be more than enough for these techno-hipster-texting-sexting-whateverthehelltheyares these days.

    So there ya go. Make it not worth the bother. Instant gratification's bad for the soul anyhow. We used to have a sayin': "If you don't know how to use unix, you don't belong on the net". Them was good times. Before every Tom Dick n' Harry came on and it became this big sissified thing that anyone could use to get whatever they wanted whenever they wanted it, before collective intelligence via content-driven sites became part of the way we think. Before we could go out there and say what was on our mind, no matter who it pissed off. Crank it back to the old days, and I guaran-dang-tee you won't see people using the internet for piracy anymore.

    Or dang near anything else, for that matter.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Ban JavaScript? You've got my vote
    Ban JavaScript? You've got my vote:
    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!

    PFft you're way too softcore for this.

    We don't need no stinking monitors, think of the bandwidth saving and speed increase if every command and response triggered zero display activity !

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Robbert
    Robbert:
    As a regular reader I feel ashamed for not getting it until the GOPHER line. :(

    Come on now that's evil .. baiting the poor retards by pretending anyone can be that dumb and they're not alone ... pure evil.

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Jason
    Jason:
    If I am reading this right, Alex is saying that TRWTF with SOPA is that there is already a tried and true way to get around the DNS hijacking that SOPA would introduce - by returning to hosts files and the days before DNS.

    Much bigger than that . At first you'd have real free DNS servers without any of the SOPA clear, then the masses would gradually migrate over there, before another law is passed etc... retarded times indeed

  • SOPAWTF (unregistered)

    This is sarcasm...right?

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    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.

    In those days, you could even have a computer that was too slow to play the damn mp3's .. good thing is there were quite a few good midi tunes :p

  • redtetrahedron (unregistered) in reply to Roger
    Roger:
    I'm sure you also liked the good old days when you had to go and get your own meat and "maybe" end up being some other creature's dinner, but unfortunately there is a thing called progress which sometimes comes for good and sometimes not. I'll separate the rest of the evening to go out and hunt my own Cow in order to do a nice barbecue for my friends.

    <oldjoke> if the opposite of pro is con, then the opposite of progress is... Congress! </oldjoke>

    By the way, I can't sign in to the IP address version of this site.

  • Philip (unregistered) in reply to Tom
    Tom:
    Im removing The Daily WTF from my RSS reader, I don't want to have anything to do with someone who supports SOPA ! :-/

    Must be an xmodem hater. Although even gopher supported those new-fangled IP address thingies. rx, rz, and uucp FTW!

  • L. (unregistered) in reply to Avenger
    Avenger:
    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?

    Why do non-techies even bother commenting ???

    There's a perfect solution for that, it's called DNS servers.

    The fact that the old DNS servers owned by the evil ones become increasingly unusable doesn't mean you can't set your DNS to a free DNS that doesn't care about SOPA --

  • Gabe (unregistered) in reply to Tom

    You know how I know you didn't read the post?

Leave a comment on “Support The Daily WTF in Supporting the Support SOPA Movement”

Log In or post as a guest

Replying to comment #:

Log Out

« Return to Article